Selling Latin America

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Identifikator:: 101030657X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-41609

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Aughinbaugh, William E.

Title:: Selling Latin America

Place of publication:: Boston

Publisher:: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers

Year of publication:: 1915

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 408 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: XXVIII. Reciprocity

Collection:: Economics Books

352 SELLING LATIN AMERICA turn around and sell us back—at a profit of course—fifty per cent, of what they bought in Ecuador. And we call ourselves merchants! Who exhibits the good judgment in such a transaction? The linseed of the world is produced by Argentine and India. The small farmer trades it for supplies to the village merchant, who in turn exchanges it for goods with the jobber in the capital or seaport. To these men come the buyers for the Greek firm which practically controls this industry and purchase the seed, and we, the most extensive users of linseed oil in the world, pay our toll and trib ute to the able and shrewd men who have their headquarters in Athens. Isn’t there some thing radically wrong here? The alpaca gives a fine soft wool. Prac tically all of this material is bought in Bo livia by Europeans who manufacture the cloth which they afterwards sell us. I cannot un derstand why some sagacious American has not entered this profitable market. The seasons in the southern part of South

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