Antitrust, Sustainability, and Living Wages/Living Incomes

Some of the biggest challenges the world faces require companies to work together, e.g. the provision of living wages. This cooperation sometimes requires discussion of prices, e.g. farm-gate pricing. Companies fear that such dialogue among competitors infringes competition law, which has caused antitrust to become a key roadblock to the eradication of poverty and the achievement of other sustainability goals. The Fair Trade movement has been concerned about this impact of competition law on sus