Chris Dillow asks, (Why) does free trade favour the rich?
Here is something on Make Trade Fair’s website that absolutely infuriates me:
Pitting fledgling industries in poor countries against big business overseas is like putting a rabbit in a cage with a tiger.
It is such a stupid analogy. They seem to have completely missed the fact that animals tend not to trade with each other, and that countries tend not to eat each other.
Snooo
14 July 2006 10:35
#1
There’s a new advert for innocent smoothies on TV. Its as po-faced as their previous efforts, featuring a montage of images with captions over them.
Anyway, at one point it shows a collection of african blokes staring into the camera, with the caption “we don’t crush these”. Who sells cannibal smoothies?
Scott
15 July 2006 03:33
#2
The analogy is bang on the money – countries may not eat each other, but companies in the same market do. There is no country in the world which has come to economic strength without protectionist policies – for good reason. Now other countries are preached to remove such protections – also with reason, although none that are good for them.