![]() ![]() ![]() And, I’m not kidding, it is quite a page turner. An empirically minded development economist has written a story (with a setting, a plot, complications, a crisis, a climax, and denouncement). This is the topic of Bruce Wydick’s novel about coffee production and consumption in today’s world. Still I tend to wonder: Who benefited most? And was anyone exploited? Remarkably the whole thing cost me only $4.25! I say ‘only’ because, just think about all the people involved, all the families that this product influences. ![]() It was taken from the cow, pasteurized, homogenized, packaged, transported, marketed, steamed, and finally aesthetically mixed into my cappuccino. The milk was likely farmed in the United States. They had to be irrigated, harvested, packed into bags, imported, roasted, packaged again, transported, marketed, and brewed. I write this as I sit in a coffee shop sipping a cappuccino. ![]()
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