Fluctuations in wool prices 1870-1963

Abstract

The Research Unit, supported by a grant from the Wool Research Organisation, has on hand a programme of research on factors affecting wool prices. Much of this research has involved further development of work commenced in 1950 by the present author at the University of Leeds, and published in the Yorkshire Bulletin of Economic and Social Research. The results of the current research programme are now being prepared for publication in a series of Research Unit bulletins but before these are released it seemed appropriate to reissue the original Yorkshire Bulletin article which is now out of print and for which there have been many demands. Part I of the present publication is a reprint of the original article, "Fluctuations in Wool Prices 1870-1953", as it was first published in the Yorkshire Bulletin. In Part II, entitled "Postscript - The Results Brought Up-to-Date", the analysis given in Part I is brought up-to-date with the additional data now available.