Firestarter Podcast 3 - Stan Thekaekara part 2

This is the Firestarter Podcast which is the world's first podcast for social enterprises in health.

This week's podcast features a presentation by Stan Thekaekara who is the Chairman and CEO of Just Change and a Fellow of the Scholl Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. This was recorded at the Social Enterprise Coalition's Health and Social Care Forum and the podcast covers:

• What is a free market?
• The social and economic impact of the collapse of the tea market in India 
• The limitations and problems with Fair Trade
• The role of human relationships in trade
• How Just Change brings the producer and consumer together to regain control of the market
• What if we let customers decide the price of Fair Trade products?
• The relationship between apples and hospitals 

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Podcast 3 - This can be downloaded here

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