Книга: Пьетра Риволи / Pietra Rivoli «Путешествие футболки в мировой экономике / The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy : An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade»

Производитель: "Баланс бизнес букс"

В данной книге профессор Пьетра Риволи приглашает читателя в увлекательное кругосветное путешествие, цель которого проследить жизненный путь шестидолларовой футболки. Отправившись с хлопкового поля западного Техаса на фабрику в Китае, побывав на переговорах в Вашингтоне и на рынке подержанной одежды в Африке, автор, воссоздавая жизненный путь простой футболки, исследует механизмы международной торговли. Сочетая захватывающее повествование с глубокими научными знаниями, автор книги доказывает, что и сторонникам и противникам глобализации свойственно упрощать мир международной торговли. It brings history and economics in an enjoyable way... (Financial Times, 21st September 2005) afine account of how the countervailing forces of the market and protectionism conflict in combining in a single product (Financial Times, 30 July 2005) Rarely is a business book so well written that one would gladly stay up all night to finish it... (CIO: Chief Information Officer Magazine, June 15, 2005) Globalization is a hot-button topic that generates strong feelings along with images of boarded-up, independent businesses in America and exploitative sweatshops overseas. But what exactly is it? In The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy, Georgetown University business professorPietra Rivoli chronicles the round-the-world odyssey of a T-shirt, from Texas cotton-growers to an African used-clothing bazaar, to reveal how the planetary economy really works. Along the way, we see how entrepreneurial U. S. farmers team with government-sponsored researchers--and take advantage ofsubsidies and trade barriers--to dominate world cotton production. Migrant workers from Chinese family farms tell why they regard low-wage jobs in Shanghai sewing factories as golden opportunities. And only in that African used-clothing bazaar do we encounter a truly free market where entrepreneurs--perhaps including some future tycoons of the 21st century--utterly rely on pure business skills and instinct. Whether you feel hurt or helped by globalization, you ll certainly understand it better after reading this fascinating account. (Entrepreneur Magazine, May 2005 ... full of memorable characters and vivid scenes... and that Rivoli excels at making connections. (Time Magazine, March 28, 2005) T-shirts may not have changed the world; but this story is a useful account of how free trade and protection certainly have. (Financial Times) The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy is an excellent piece of work - a thorough, lucid and (best of all) honest examination of how politics and economics intertwine in the real world. (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Engrossing .(Rivoli) goes wherever the t-shirt goes and there are surprises around every corner full of memorable characters and vivid scenes (TIME) Her nuanced and fair-minded approach is all the more powerful for eschewing the pretense of ideological absolutism, and her telescopic look through a single industry has all the makings of an economics classic. (New York Times) Succeeds admirably T-shirts may not have changed the world, but this story is a useful account of how free trade and protectionism certainly have. (Financial Times) a fascinating exploration of the history, economics and politics of world trade The Travels of a T-Shirt is a thought-provoking yarn that exhibits the ugly, the bad and the good of globalization, and points to the unintended positive consequences of the clash between the proponents and opponents of free trade. (Dallas-Fort Worth Star-Telegram) ISBN:966-8644-72-7

Издательство: "Баланс бизнес букс" (2006)

Формат: 60x90/16, 336 стр.

ISBN: 966-8644-72-7

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