Posts Tagged ‘pricing’
Is Fair Trade coffee really ‘fair’? The short answer: no. EconTalk’s Russ Roberts chats with Duke Econ Prof Michael Munger about the concept of Fair Trade Coffee. It’s a very difficult challenge to ensure that a consumer price increase correlates with a laborer salary increase. But, even assuming that this difficult challenge is overcome, here [...]
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Tags: aid, artificial, beans, ceiling, certified, coffee, developing, development, econ, economics, fair, fair trade, floor, free, free trade, international, labor, price control, pricing, trade
San Francisco is notorious for its extreme tenant protection laws. Of course, these laws were designed with the best interests of tenants in mind. Rent control is one of these extreme tenant protections. The concept is simple and noble: let’s keep affordable housing for our residents, regardless of income, by keeping rent constant from move-in. [...]
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Tags: apartments, control, cost of living, destructive legislation, econ, economics, government, market, pricing, rent, rent control, san francisco, sf, tenant rights
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