Free Trade - Choose "Fair" If You Think It Is, I Won't If I Think It Isn't

"Put differently, among the very reasons that losing a particular job to trade is so traumatic is that that job is made so attractive by trade."
http://cafehayek.com/2010/10/fair-trade-is-good.html

Of course, some people take the notion of fair trade to the point of making it law - which just means every politician competes to define the term "fair" to the benefit of their most powerful, high paying constituency.
http://cafehayek.com/2010/11/fair-trade-is-less-fair-and-less-free-than-free-trade.html

More goodies of late on trade:
http://cafehayek.com/2010/11/misunderstanding-of-free-trade-instance-23784.html

http://cafehayek.com/2010/11/does-trade-loot-jobs.html

http://cafehayek.com/2010/12/united-auto-weenies.html

http://cafehayek.com/2006/03/is_fair_trade_f.html