He has also written several books, including Globalization and Its Discontents, The Roaring Nineties, Towards a New Paradigm in Monetary Economics, Fair Trade For All, Making Globalization Work, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict and Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy.

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Another worry: It could be that the creation of a fair trade market depresses demand for coffee from all the other sources, causing wages to fall in that end of the business.

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Put profits and narrow national interests aside and pave the path to peace and security for women by adopting an arms trade treaty with strong and fair rules for human rights protection for all.

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James modeled Fair Trade Sports on Newman's Own, the salad dressing and popcorn company set up by the late Paul Newman: Fair Trade is a for-profit enterprise but pledges to give away all its aftertax profits to charity.

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