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And lo on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:37:46 -0000, scott <sco### [at] laptop com> did
spake, saying:
>> Try
>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Undercover-Economist-Tim-Harford/dp/0349119856/
>> he discusses much the same thing though he concentrates on how
>> companies get us to differentiate ourselves by the amount we spend. For
>> example Sainsbury's bananas are 14p each, Sainsbury's Fair Trade
>> bananas are 22p each; do you think the entire extra 8p per banana is
>> going to the grower?
>
> Yeh the article was by him ;-)
Heh it's a good book, I don't agree completely with his conclusions of the
Free Market System. From what I recall he tends to skip over the effects
of transparency, and illegality; that is where that 8p goes, how you can
compete with a nation that might enslave their population to work
producing goods, and why we shouldn't follow the Afghan example and grow
poppies
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Phil Cook
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