All Posts Tagged With: "fair trade"

The Economics of Caring and Sharing

The author would like to thank the Earhart Foundation for supporting his previous research on happiness, which led to considerations on which the present paper is based. If we were to apply the unmodified, uncurbed rules of the micro-cosmos (i.e., of the small band or troop, or say our families) to the macro-cosmos (our wider [...]

22Jun2011 | Dwight R. Lee | 4 comments | Continued

Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development

Joseph Stiglitz is a professor of economics at Columbia University. He served as a member and then chairman of President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1993 to 1997, and then was the chief economist and senior vice president at the World Bank from 1997 to 2000. In 2001 Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel [...]

18May2010 | Richard M. Ebeling | 1 comment | Continued

Is Fair Trade a Fair Deal?

Gene Callahan is the author of Economics for Real People. We’ve all seen the signs in our local cafes, boasting something like: “We proudly sell coffee brewed with Fair Trade coffee beans, acquired at a price that permits sustainable farming and pays growers a living wage.” These posters are part of a popular trend in [...]

1Mar2008 | Gene Callahan | 3 comments | Continued

Free Men for Better Job Performance, Part II

Recognizing the employee as a tenant with a contract to utilize his own property (skills, talents, etc.) to increase the productivity and enhance the value of the employer’s property certainly is not the view now prevailing of the employer-employee relationship.

1Jul2007 | C.L. Dickinson | 1 comment | Continued

Let Us Not Speak Falsely Now

One of the most difficult issues facing those arguing for a free society is the bias built into the way we speak. When the very words people use create a prejudice in favor of government intervention, supporters of freedom must first alert their audience to this pernicious influence, and only then can the argument about [...]

1Mar2004 | and and Gene Callahan | 1 comment | Continued

Capitalism and Coercion

A century and more ago, when Marxism was in its ascendancy as a theory, its followers (as well as many others) naturally believed its dogma about workers being the helpless pawns of capitalists–forced to sell their labor at less than its true worth, with no real alternative. But now, despite Marxism’s collapse as both a [...]

1Feb2002 | Allan Levite | 1 comment | Continued

The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy by Patrick Buchanan

Little Brown & Company • 1998 • 320 pages • $22.95 Patrick Buchanan has given America one of the most eloquent theological tracts of recent decades. Unfortunately, when Buchanan, a two-time presidential candidate, takes his theological views into economic areas, the result is a recipe for poverty, conflict, and subjugation. The subtitle of Buchanan’s book [...]

1Jan1999 | James Bovard | 0 comments | Continued

Free Trade to Benefit the Many–Not Fair Trade to Benefit the Few

When asked, most politicians claim that they favor free trade. But they quickly add the qualification that it must also be fair trade, which generally means that we should open our markets to another country’s products only if their markets are equally open to our products. This qualification makes sense politically because people are easily [...]

1Oct1997 | Dwight R. Lee | 0 comments | Continued

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