Fair trade coffee is largely a marketing scam: you cannot increase the income of input producers (farmers) by raising the final output price, because there is no way to 'push uphill' on the production chain even if everyone in it has goodwill.

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Mike Munger

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it's largely a marketing scam even the people who are in favor of it will tell you that it isn't working in the way that they had hoped

Source

Mike Munger on Fair Trade and Free Trade 12/3/2007EconTalk
Created: 6/17/2026, 10:31:24 AM

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