WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Throughout history governments (the management team of the

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

Throughout history governments (the management team of the marketplace) has seen fit to impose standards of weights and measures – usually by requiring a dominant standard be observed by all traders in the market.

These standards of weight, volume, length, composition (ingredients), naming (champagne), and branding (Mattel) – and sometimes form (design) seem to be incrementally adopted everywhere.

Why?