Should You Buy Fair Trade Coffee?
A Discussion of “The Economics of Fair Trade”
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6 min readAug 28, 2020
Fair Trade is a movement to ensure producers receive higher prices for their goods, not only for coffee, but that may be the best-known example.
Dragusanu, Giovannucci, and Nunn (2014) explore the Fair Trade coffee market to see if it achieves its goals: (p. 218)
