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The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade
ISBN: 978-0-471-72419-3
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256 pages
April 2005
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Preface.

Prologue.

PART I:  KING COTTON.

Chapter 1. Reinsch Cotton Farm, Smyer, Texas.

Chapter 2. The History of American Cotton.

Chapter 3. Back at the Reinsch Farm.

PART II: MADE IN CHINA.

Chapter 4. Cotton Comes to China.

Chapter 5. The Long Race to The Bottom.

Chapter 6. Sisters in Time.

PART III: TROUBLE AT THE BORDER.

Chapter 7. Dogs Snarling Together.

Chapter 8. Perverse Effects and Unintended.

Consequences of T-Shirt Trade Policy.

Chapter 9. 40 Years of "Temporary" Protectionism.

PART IV: MY T-SHIRT FINALLY ENCOUNTERS A FREE MARKET.

Chapter 10. Where T-Shirts Go after the Salvation Army Bin.

Chapter 11. How Small Entrepreneurs Clothe East Africa with Old American T-Shirts.

Conclusion.

Epilogue to the Paperback Edition.

Acknowledgments.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

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