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Introduction: Trump, nationalism, and a future in the balance -- Trade past and present (a quick primer) -- The U.S. time bomb that blew up in 2016 -- Broader problems with trade--what's behind anti-globalism -- Is the world trade order broken? -- Can welfare states survive in the global economy? -- Potential trade scenarios -- The huge (but hard to quantify) social benefits of trade -- How mature industrial nations should forge the new multilateralism -- Conclusion: a vision for sustainable global growth through trade

As an international management consultant for 30 years since graduating from Wharton and joining a renowned management consulting firm, the author has helped oil & gas, power, mining, and industrial companies around the world build plants and improve efficiency to offer low-cost goods to consumers who always want more for less. He has seen first-hand the impact of hundreds of industrial mega-projects on natural resources, native landscapes, and working conditions. His first book, The Guide to Supply Chain Management (Bloomberg and The Economist, 2009), formulated a recipe for global supply chain optimization based on industry "best practices." His second book, Optimal Supply Chain Management in Oil, Gas & Power Generation (PennWell, 2011) fine-tuned the techniques of optimal supply chain management for oil, gas, and power companies. In this (his third) book, he pivots to explain how these "optimized" supply chains have created a dilemma of global proportions. He reveals the dark secrets of international supply chains for familiar products such as coffee, bottled water, gasoline, and smartphones, and explains how government policies and business norms around the world have evolved to allow fracking, pollution, toxic waste, human exploitation and other unsustainable practices. Jacoby proposes a bold and promising new policy framework that is ground-breaking and achievable.

chapter 1 "Venetian Commercial Expansion in the eastern Mediterranean, 8th–11th centuries", in Marlia Mundell Mango, edition, Byzantine Trade, 4th–12th Centuries. The Archaeology of Local, Regional and International Exchange (Papers of the Thirty-eight Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, St. John's College, University of Oxford, March 2004), Farnham: Ashgate, 2009, pp. 371–391 -- chapter 2 "The Venetians in Byzantine and Lusignan Cyprus: Trade, Settlement, and Politics", in A. Nicolaou-Konnari, edition, La Serenissima and la Nobilissima: Venice in Cyprus and Cyprus in Venice, Nicosia: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 2009, pp. 59–100 -- chapter 3 "Commercio e navigazione degli Amalfitani nel Mediterraneo orientale: sviluppo e declino", in Bruno Figliuolo e Pinuccia F. Simbula, editions., Interscambi socio-culturali ed economici fra le citta marinare d'Italia e l'Occidente dagli osservatori mediterranei, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Amalfi 14–16 maggio 2011, Amalfi: Centro di Cultura e Storia Amalfitana, 2014, pp. 89–128 -- chapter 4 "The Economic Function of the Crusader States of the Levant: a New Approach", in S. Cavaciocchi, edition, Relazioni economiche tra Europa e mondo islamico. Secc. XIII–XVIII (Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica "F. Datini", Atti delle Settimane di Studi e altri convegni, 38/1), Firenze: Le Monnier, 2007, pp. 159–191 -- chapter 5 "Acre-Alexandria: A Major Commercial Axis of the Thirteenth Century", in Marina Montesano, edition, "Come l'orco della fiaba". Studi per Franco Cardini, Firenze: SISMEL/Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2010, pp. 151–167 -- chapter 6 "Marco Polo, His Close Relatives, and His Travel Account: Some New Insights", Mediterranean Historical Review, 21 (2006), pp. 193–218 -- chapter 7 "Byzantium, the Italian Maritime Powers, and the Black Sea before 1204", Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 100 (2007), pp. 677–699 -- chapter 8 "Mediterranean Food and Wine for Constantinople: The Long-Distance Trade, Eleventh to Mid-Fifteenth Century", in Ewald Kislinger, Johannes Koder, Andreas Kulzer, eds, Handelsguter und Verkehrswege. Aspekte der Warenversorgung im ostlichen Mittelmeerraum (4. bis 15. Jahrhundert) (Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Klasse, Denkschriften, 388. Band), Wien, 2010, pp. 127–147 -- chapter 9 "Rural Exploitation and Market Economy in the Late Medieval Peloponnese", in Sharon E. J. Gerstel, edition, Viewing the Morea. Land and People in the Late Medieval Peloponnese, Harvard University Press, 2013, pp. 213–275 -- chapter 10 "Jews and Christians in Venetian Crete: Segregation, Interaction, and Conflict", in Uwe Israel, Robert Jutte, Reinhold C. Mueller, editions., "Interstizi": Culture ebraico-cristiane a Venezia e nei suoi domini dal medioevo all'eta moderna (Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani, Ricerche 5), Roma: Storia e Letteratura, 2010, pp. 239–279.

The customary treatment of Mediterranean trade from the 11th to the mid-15th century emphasizes the predominance of western merchants and the commercial exchange of spices and eastern raw materials for western woollens and other finished products. The studies in this collection, the sixth by David Jacoby to be published in the Variorum series, adopt a different perspective. They underscore the economic vitality of various countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean, their industrial capacity, the importance of exchanges between them, and the important contribution of the merchants based in that region to trans-Mediterranean trade. They also illustrate the role of hitherto neglected commodities, such as timber, iron, silk and cheese, in that trade.

The articles in this collection cover the region extending from Italy to the Black Sea and to Egypt, over a period of seven centuries, with an emphasis on the considerable economic and social interaction between the West and the regions of the Eastern Mediterranean. They represent key works in the oeuvre of David Jacoby, the doyen of scholars in the field over many decades.--

Between 1082 and· 1192 several Byzantine emperors conferred extensive privileges on the three main Italian maritime powers, Venice, Pisa and Genoa. A new reading of their commercial and fiscal provisions in a contemporary context and in a comparative framework reveals some misunderstood or overlooked aspects of their content, suggests novel inter­pretations, and sheds light on some of their effects on trade, shipping and the Italian settletment pattern in the Empire before the Fourth Crusade. The disparity between the respective privileges granted to the three maritime powers was far wider than generally assumed. Deliberate measures taken by the Byzantine government, the arbitrary action of its officials, especially in the provinces, and political developments affected in various ways, at times heavily, the implementation of these privileges and the benefit deri­ving from them. These factors should be taken into account in any evalua­tion of Italian trade and settlement in Byzantium and the impact these had on the Empire's economy. ; Divers empereurs byzantins octroyèrent de 1082 à 1192 des pri­vilèges étendus aux trois principales puissances maritimes italiennes, Venise, Pise et Gênes. Une nouvelle lecture des clauses commerciales et fiscales de ces privilèges dans un contexte contemporain et dans un cadre compara­tif révèle des aspects méconnus ou oubliés de leur contenu, suggère de nouvelles interprétations et éclaire certains de leurs effets sur le commerce, le transport maritime et l'implantation italienne dans l'Empire avant la qua­trième croisade. Les écarts entre les privilèges respectifs des trois puis­sances étaient beaucoup plus grands qu'on ne l'admet couramment. L'appli­cation de ces privilèges et le profit qui en dérivait ont été affectés de diver­ses manières, parfois sensiblement, par les mesures délibérées du gouverne­ment impérial, les actions arbitraires de ses officiers, en particulier dans les provinces, enfin, les développements politiques. Il faut tenir compte de ces facteurs dans toute évaluation du commerce et de l'implantation des Italiens dans l'Empire byzantin et de leur impact sur l'économie de celui-ci.