Rocky Pipkin, Private Eye Vs. The Raisin Outlaw   Leave a comment

ap060410025294Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/08/09/210550830/episode-478-rocky-pipkin-private-eye-vs-the-raisin-outlaw 

Summary: Describes the raisin industry in the United States and how historic events resulted in a government sanctioned raisin cartel.  Includes discussion of one producer breaking from the cartel, efforts by the cartel to enforce its collective actions, and other political and economic impacts of this defection. 

Length: 21:51 min

Original air date: August 9, 2013

Posted August 12, 2013 by audioecon in Government, Oligopoly, Planet Money, Regulation

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