Aid, Trade and Reason

Published January 12, 2005

It's good that people have given from their hearts to the tsunami victims in Asia, and that governments (although they don't actually have hearts) have pledged even larger sums in aid. But the devil, as usual, is in the details.

"I do think there are moments when society realizes that we are all in this together," said Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown last week, claiming (or at least...