T-Shirt Travels Review – Play the Game!

“That’s why they play the game.” This saying is applied to sports all the time. When a team that is on paper inferior to their opponent wins we are reminded that events do not unfold in an expected or even logical way.

I was recently reminded of this when I took out two books from the library. One is called “Rework” and I expected it to be a relatively drab marketing / business book. It wasn’t. The other is called “The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade” – whew! And if that wasn’t enough it was written by an economics PhD and Georgetown professor, Pietra Rivoli. I anticipated a dense and boring book that would be hard to follow. But I’ve found the book to astoundingly interesting, tangible and level-headed. I recommend reading it in its entirety, but I will also be giving a chapter by chapter reaction, starting with the preface later this week.

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This is part of a chapter by chapter reaction to The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade.

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