Howard Davies followed that at Stratford in 1983 with a boldly Brechtian version, while Greg Doran in 1996, blazoning the play's sub-title of "All Is True" across the back wall, subtly showed how truth is a relative commodity.
"The idea that China was autarkic in this period is a ridiculous myth," says Mr Flynn.Still, say Mr O'Rourke and Mr Williamson, the effect of China's policy, especially on relative commodity prices, is worth quantifying.
Mr Hamilton continues:Policy-makers in the Federal Reserve have traditionally thought of inflation as a broad movement in all wages and prices, which to some extent is under their control, and viewed changes in relative commodity prices as outside their control.
He seems to feel – despite living in America for many years, that he still has no right to tell Americans what their criminal justice system ought to do: as though human life is a relative commodity.
The Big Five accounting firms are clearly worried, and they are scrambling to come up with a quick fix to improve disclosures of off-balance sheet debts, related-party transactions and market risks relative to commodity prices.
Chemical products depend for their function on a chemical or a chemical transformation and are usually of high value and manufactured in low volumes, relative to commodity chemicals.
A supremely talented player who struggled on and off the court in his sophomore season, Smart went from a sure fire top-three pick in the 2013 draft to a relative unknown commodity in the 2014 draft.
The difficulty is that the relative importance of commodities changes over time.
Also, in looking at Merrill's results, analysts pointed to the firm's relative weakness in commodities trading, a rich area of profits for firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
Nobody gets any richer long these two commodities relative to equities.
