Brad De Long wrote:
I pointed out that Roger Milliken--American textile capital--thinks
that AGOA is not in his material interest, suggesting that (as I
believe) the beneficiaries from AGOA will be (among others) African
labor.
Milliken is pretty alone in his industry, as far as I know. Most
Wouldn't it behoove us to find out whether the firms that will make the
textiles etc. are Northern Corps. out to simply set up shop to capture rents
from the wage differential. If they are, say, US corps. then the suggestion
that some sort of levy or tax on their "import"[ation] into the US so
ecord conversation. "You and I," he says, "are about to
go on deep background, OK?"
What's the problem? Something that has been whispered about on the left for
some time now: the suspicion that Roger Milliken--billionaire textile
magnate from South Carolina, founding member of t