The Closing of the Cocoa Frontier
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- Feb 19, 2023
- #PoliticalEconomy
This Valentines day, Americans gifted each other in the order of 58 million pounds of chocolate, much of it wrapped in 36 million heart-shaped boxes. It was a particularly busy peri...
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Alex Gladstein @gladstein
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Feb 20, 2023
Incredible piece. Thank you for your contributions. It is unfortunate that the productive power of nations like Ghana goes in no small part to give us chocolate while the farmers that do most of the work get a micro fraction of the profit. This breeds dependence…