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<wwb3@uchicago.edu> I have nothing to contribute but want to encourage you. The question intrigues me as an historian since the bottom line on colonial cotton exports seems to be that it was a bad idea, based on panic (boll weevils in the U.S.), pointless autarky, misconceptions about the future of cotton textile production in the metropoles and poor comparative advantages vs. the U.S. Now we are told that U.S. protectionism (certainly a bad idea in itself) is preventing Mali, etc. from great cotton export opportunities. I would like to know your grounds for being " critical of export-oriented cotton production in Africa." Ralph Austen
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