Category: Fair Trade

Are the Rich Necessary? Economic Problem and Science If we can promote economic growth through cooperation, the scientific method could help us separate the truth and error to find the best approach for cooperation. However creating wealth is not the same as building a building, an engine and etc because same set of rules doesn’t apply to everyone. Economics is a human behavior and humans are extremely unpredictable. The Rich Some people referred to as egalitarians or equalitarian wishes to get rid of the rich or at least reduce the extremes of wealth and poverty. They views rich as parasites […]

The United States, going into the 21st century, could be considered the world’s economic leader. It could have been unindubitable a lot around the 1980s when the stock market crashed; however, it has come a long way from those thirty years ago. Currently the United States is praised for its freedoms, and it is known to be one of the most popular countries to want to be visited. Our relatively open borders, which permit most foreign goods to come in with a zero or low toll or tax, have helped keep inflation in check. This has also allowed the Federal […]

When you buy a cup of coffee in Starbucks every morning to keep you awake through the day, do you ever think of the origins of these coffee beans? How much of those three dollars you pay in Starbucks goes to the Farmers? Personally, I am not a coffee drinker. After watching the documentary Black Gold, I have realized the effects of European colonialism on countries such as Ethiopian. Through social, economic and political policies Western nations have forced developing nations to remain dependent upon them for survival. In the documentary it explains the story about Ethiopian coffee farmers who […]

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr; line-height: 120%; text-align: left; }Itwas a typical afternoon; the sun peeks through a cluster of clouds,the air is humid, as usual, and as the busy townspeople of Lucbanproceed on their tasks, I noticed a mother and a child staring atrandom by-passers. Of course being the curious child I was, I sparedmy time to observe them. Thechild, covered in old pieces of clothing, pulls his mother’s shirt ashe points to a random by-passer. I noticed the mother’s effort toignore her son even though it’s very obvious that she knew her sonwas pointing out something. I […]