largest raw cotton market in the world. The article's findings demonstrate and quantify the importance of nonstate actors, in …In the 19th century, the Liverpool Cotton Brokers Association (CBA) coordinated the dramatic growth of Liverpool's raw … cotton market. This article shows how the CBA achieved this through the development of a private order institutional …

's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers. The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …