Much academic and investor analysis and commentary sees the four main precious metals as a single market, integrated and to some degree with each metal a substitute for the other. This proposition, which can be explicit or implicit can be challenged on economic grounds and on statistical...

Foreword / Bishop Jo Seoka - 1. Introduction / Britta Becker, Maren Grimm and Jakob Krameritsch - 2. The convergence of corporate and government interests: the unfinished business of the Marikana massacre / Jakob Krameritsch and Maren Grimm - 3. 'Only the stupidest countries stick to the...