Here you go, Dave. We give in.
Posted on Dec 19 2006 | Tagged as: Politics, The Stupid, Media
The New Statesman’s response to a piece of analysis in the Economist that suggested that Fair Trade foods might actually do more harm than good:
“What rot. When the champions of wealthy corporate concerns express dismay at the way you are spending your money, you can be sure you must be doing something right.”
If that’s what passes for argument from the Left these days they might as well hand over the keys to number 10 to Mr Cameron now.
on 27 Dec 2006 at 3:31 am 1 David Gillies said …
The New Statesman still cleaves to a Weltanschauung that has been demonstrated, empirically, to be bogus. What chance that argument or exposition of the facts could penetrate that? It’s what the Jesuits used to call invincible ignorance. If by the time you’re penning articles for supposedly serious political magazines you remain unconvinced of the merits of free trade, then you are probably irredeemable. Left or Right doesn’t really enter the picture; Brad de Long, Paul Krugman, Milton Friedman and Richard Epstein all agreed that trade is most
beneficial when as unfettered as possible.