Reviews for Taking Southeast Asia to Market

The average rating for Taking Southeast Asia to Market based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-06-03 00:00:00 Tammi Donaldson Very good book about how the world jointly created/moved manufacturing. Wish I would hurry up and get back to this book; I would thoroughly enjoy sharing it with my BFF who traveled to Europe and the Far East for business. This book talks about how exploitation (for profit) ruined many many villages on this earth (i.e. clearing farm land for shrimp farms, creating reasons for people to want to make more money to increase company profit). I sent this to my niece in Finance; I think she, like all my nieces, dwell upon moral issues above all else. If you like this book, i suggest reading Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. I still wonder why I never researched my doubts about 'helping Mexico'. I later made work decisions based on 'the greater good of all', took me 50 years.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-04-24 00:00:00 Steffen Leithold This is fine work; the ethnographies are diverse and rich in primary detail. The focus is mainly on the birth and expansion of production systems in Southeast Asia. Which will prove useful for referencing and comparison later. There is some acknowledgement of changing consumption patterns and shifting market demand (eg. the chapters by Gellert, Vandergeest, Barney and Fougeres) but for the most part the discussion is centered on the complex relations between commodity production and agrarian societies.