The Travels of a T-Shirt in The Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade; Contents; Preface; Prologue; Part I: King Cotton; 1 How America Has Dominated the Global Cotton Industry for 200 Years; 2 The History of American Cotton; Keep the Fiddler Well-Supplied with Catgut; Eli Meets a Venture Capitalist; Where Was the Competition?; All God's Dangers Ain't a White Man; Cotton Factories Arrive in Texas; 3 Back at the Reinsch Farm; C.F. and Hattie Move West (and Bring a Tractor); White Guys Get All Draggy-Like; Bureaucrats Push Out Sharecroppers. Machines that Don't Get All DiscouragedPick Your Weather; The Reinsch Children Leave the Farm; Old Enemies, New Friends; Designer Genes; Back to Nature or Forward to the Future?; 4 All God's Dangers Ain't the Subsidies; Backward to Seed and Forward to Denim: Farmer Profits at Every Step; No More Handfuls; All This and Subsidies, Too; Pretty Pigs; No Lipstick for Africa; Where Is the Competition?; Vicious Circles; Too Poor to Pollute; Bt Cotton Comes to China; The Worms Win; Part II: Made in China; 5 Cotton Comes to China; The Chinese Wall; Shanghai Number 36 Cotton Yarn Factory. The Shanghai Brightness Number 3 Garment Factory6 The Long Race to the Bottom; Inventive Brits versus Thrifty Chinamen; Help Wanted: Docile and Desperate Preferred; 7 Sisters in Time; Docility on a Leash; Sure Beats the Farm; Amazon.com and Dell Arrive at the Mill; 8 The Unwitting Conspiracy; Writing the Rules of the Race; Activists Raise the Bottom, 1780 -- 2008; Back at Georgetown, Bored Is Good; Bad for Boy Rats; Trade: Friend or Foe of the Planet?; The China Challenge; The Race Moves On; Part III: Trouble at The Border; 9 Returning to America; Chinese T-Shirts Versus American Jobs. A Taste of the (Crazy) Rules in 200810 Dogs Snarling Together; Auggie Goes to Washington; Making Deals and Making Exceptions; 1985 to 1990: The Seed-to-Shirt Coalition; Snarling Back; Gone On Long Enough; The Slow Unraveling; 11 Perverse Effects and Unintended Consequences of T-Shirt Trade Policy; No More Doffers; Own Worst Enemy; Friends with Benefits; Wal-Mart Backs Musharraf; Race to the Quotas; Auggie and Aristotle Versus Wal-Mart; Creative Destruction; Whither the Dinosaurs?; (Unintended) Winners; 12 45 Years of ''Temporary'' Protectionism End in 2009 -- Now What?; The Big Bang. The Big Wink and NodA Sigh of Relief; What's Next?; Friends and Enemies, 2008; Obama's Wink; Try This New Underwear; Part IV: My T-Shirt Finally Encounters A Free Market; 13 Where T-Shirts Go after the Salvation Army Bin; Meet Me in the Parking Lot; Panning for Gold in New Jersey; T-Shirts in the Afterlife; 14 How Small Entrepreneurs Clothe East Africa with Old American T-Shirts; Mitumba Nation; Two for a Penny; Panning for Gold in Tanzania; Finding Geofrey; Too Big for Used Britches; 15 Mitumba: Friend or Foe to Africa?; Shadowy Middlemen and Economic Democracy.