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Most of us take for granted the ease with which we can fill up our cars, buy a new smartphone or order a cup of Colombian coffee. But underpinning almost all of our consumption is a frenetic international trade in natural resources. And underpinning that trade, from their offices in sleepy towns in Switzerland or New England, are the commodity traders.
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― The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
― The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
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In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force
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