Una crítica vacilante: cómo el potencial del Comercio Justo disminuye con "éxito"

  • Ian Hudson Universidad de Manitoba
  • Mark Hudson Universidad de Manitoba
Palabras clave: Comercio Justo, normas de certificación, café, plantaciones, cooperativas.

Resumen

En términos generales, el objetivo del Comercio Justo es mejorar la vida de desarrollo de los productores nacionales. Para ello, el comercio justo, como cualquier otro movimiento de consumidores éticos, debe cambiar el comportamiento de los consumidores. Esto tiene la ventaja potencial de consumo defetishizing animando a la gente a cuestionar el impacto social y medioambiental de sus compras. Sin embargo, debido a que está sujeta a la lógica de un mercado caracterizado por la competencia y el conocimiento del consumidor limitada, el Comercio Justo también contiene características inherentes que trabajan contra este potencial mediante la reducción de la distinción entre el comercio justo y la producción convencional. Si el Comercio Justo es tanto maximizar su beneficio a los productores y animar a la gente a cuestionar la producción convencional, debe revertir su actual tendencia de oscurecer la distinción entre comercio justo y la producción convencional.

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Biografía del autor/a

Ian Hudson, Universidad de Manitoba
Dr. Ian Hudson, Departamento de Economía, Universidad de Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canadá.
Mark Hudson, Universidad de Manitoba

Dr. Mark Hudson, Departamento de Sociología, Universidad de Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canadá. 

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Publicado
2015-11-04
Cómo citar
Hudson, Ian, y Mark Hudson. 2015. «Una Crítica Vacilante: Cómo El Potencial Del Comercio Justo Disminuye Con "éxito&quot»;. Eutopía. Revista De Desarrollo Económico Territorial, n.º 7 (noviembre), 131-45. https://doi.org/10.17141/eutopia.7.2015.1793.