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Praise for THE TRAVELS OF A T-SHIRT IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY "Engrossing... (Rivoli) goes wherever the T-shirt goes, and there are surprises around every corner... full of memorable characters and vivid scenes." --Time "An engaging and illuminating saga.... Rivoli follows her T-shirt along its route, but that is like saying that Melville follows his whale.... 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." --The New York Times "Rarely is a business book so well written that one would gladly stay up all night to finish it. Pietra Rivoli's The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy is just such a page-turner." --CIO magazine "Succeeds admirably... T-shirts may not have cha...