The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade. New Preface and Epilogue with Updates on Economic Issues and Main Characters, 2nd Edition

Acknowledgments

My first thanks are to the people in this story. In my travels around the world I have been blessed by hospitality, kindness, and insights from people on three continents who have welcomed me into their homes and businesses, and patiently explained things to me. As a tenured professor at an American university, my livelihood is as immune as it is possible to get from the gale-force winds of global economic and political change, so I humbly concede that to live this story is a far greater challenge than to write it. My respect for my many friends who get up every day to face these challenges is immense. My thanks and admiration are especially due to Nelson and Ruth Reinsch, Gary Sandler, Su Qin, Tao Yong Fang, Patrick Xu, Mohammed and GulamDewji, GeofreyMilonge, AuggieTantillo, Julia Hughes, and Ed and Eric Stubin.

Georgetown University has been my second home for 30 years, and I have benefited from innumerable conversations with my students and colleagues. Special thanks are due to our student activists, who first sparked the idea for this book, and who have changed my mind more than once. Their energy and engagement are inspirational, even when we disagree, and I am tremendously proud of them and the difference that they continue to make in the course that globalization takes. Many of the ideas in this book were discussed at meetings of the university's Licensing Oversight Committee, which has been chaired successively by Jim Donahue, Michael Garanzini, Dan ...