Employ Middlemen to Cut out the Middlemen
Posted in Economic Illiteracy, Extended Order, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Jan 15th, 2008
One of the common reasons individuals in certain communities give us to “buy local” is that buying local will cut out the “middleman” (you know, the evil merchants and traders, reviled since biblical times) and enable growers to focus on other things. These same individuals then launch a marketing effort to have us joining Community […]