About this title: Globalization is such an important word today, but as a concept it is sometimes difficult to grasp. What is globalization? Is it political? Economic? Social? All of the above? In TRAVELS OF A T-SHIRT IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, Pietra Rivoli, a real-world economist, explains how globalization works using a creative, attention-getting, and informative ...
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Publisher: WILEY
Date Published: 2006-01-01
ISBN-13:9780470039205ISBN:0470039205
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Publisher: Wiley
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780471648499ISBN:0471648493
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"Very interesting and balanced account of where our textiles come from. It's a bit dated, as I first saw it a few years back and am just now getting to it, but still an interesting, educational, and easy to understand book about the complex world of modern production."
"Fascinating both for seeing how far a t-shirt travels from grower to the store rack (and afterwards) and for showing how complicated international trade really is. The author writes from an free-market perspective but acknowledges the concerns of those who favor more regulation.
What particularly sticks with me: her descriptions of the grueling work in a Chinese factory, and then pointing out that the reason these young women are working there is because it's easier work for better pay than they'd get back on the farm at home."
"Economics the way it was supposed to be written: This is the tapestry of human behavior in producing and consuming items. It's not about money, it's not about high fiannce, its about how people make choices and how societies and governments drive them to expedients that will improve their lifestyles (they think).
Also, the riveting human story of families invovled in the textile industry over hundred of years. Will upend most people's preconceptions about the needle trade.
Exposes econometricians for the babbling liars and soothsayers they are, which in itself is an essential social good.
In an era when the Chicago School murders have taken their licks (Alan Greenspan and Milton Friedman, we are talking about you, you soulless gusanos and feculent bags of steaming wet maggots), this kind of constructive, analytical econmic analysis and research rescues the academic discipline from the intellectual charlartans who brought about our current recession and have caused countless premature deaths in overseas countries that have been subjected to the genocidal mandates of the World Bank and the IMF."
"Very intersting book. Describes a t-shirts life from start to finish including cotton farming, textile industry and free markets etc. I learned a lot actually."
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