Economics We Prefer Merlot With a Hint of Altruism New research finds consumers like products more if the companies that produced them are perceived as morally good. Tom Jacobs
News in Brief Months After the Bangladesh Clothing Factory Disaster, It’s Still Not Clear Who’s Going to Pay the Victims Walmart and Benetton ducked a meeting in Geneva today on restitution. Marc Herman
Economics There’s a Reason They Call It a Supply ‘Chain’ The garment industry finds that oversight of its far-off contractors is back in fashion. How tightly the industry wants to regulate itself is a matter of style. Michael Todd
Social Justice How Much Does That Company Actually Give to Charity? The trouble with shopping your way to good works Tom Bartlett