All Posts Tagged With: "outsourcing"
Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas
It looks like a book. It’s priced like a book. It’s sold in bookstores and carried by libraries. But it’s not really a book. Exporting America is merely an extended, furious yelp by CNN’s Lou Dobbs. It has no index and no bibliography. Nor does it have a single citation to any of the alleged [...]
10Jul2010 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 5 comments | ContinuedIt’s Always Something
Our economy is in the middle of an extraordinary run of success. Unemployment is low.Personal wealth is near an all-time high. Real wage growth sometimes appears less robust, but when benefits are included, real compensation is healthy. And even with the cries from some that economic mobility
isnt what it once was, legal and illegal immigrants continue
to flock to the United States. Evidently being poor here beats being poor elsewhere by a long shot.
The Great Outsourcing Scare of 2004
Last year a protectionist wind filled the air. All the good jobs, Americans were told, were disappearing faster than one could say “New Delhi.” On opening his local newspaper, the typical American would find articles alerting, “As job exports rise, some economists rethink the mathematics of free trade.” Or: “Thomson Trims 1,535 Jobs by Shifting [...]
1Mar2005 | Jude Blanchette | 2 comments | ContinuedPlaying by the Rules
During the 1992 presidential campaign, candidate Bill Clinton lyrically and repeatedly praised Americans “who play by the rules.” He did so to indicate that under a Clinton presidency, unlike under the Reagan-Bush regime, such people would not be cheated and harmed by people who break the rules. I was unaware then (as I remain now) [...]
1Sep2004 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Season of Protectionism
N. Gregory Mankiw, the Harvard professor who now chairs the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, had a rough lesson in Washington culture a few months ago. Talking to reporters, he set off a firestorm when he said, “Outsourcing is just a new way of doing international trade. More things are tradable than were tradable in [...]
1May2004 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedHave a Canadian Orange
Suppose gasoline became so expensive that getting oranges to Wisconsin raised their price to $3 each. If that price were expected to persist for a long time, there would probably arise a Wisconsin citrus industry with all the trimmings. Orange orchards would be planted near the Illinois border where the weather is warmest.
1May2004 | Russell Roberts | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Benefits of Outsourcing
Mr. Boland is a student, and Dr. Block a professor of economics, at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Imagine yourself an entrepreneur planning a new firm. After extensive market research, you decide to manufacture pencils. You begin selling them for five cents each. Your accountants have determined that it costs you [...]
1Jan1997 | and Brian Boland | 4 comments | Continued-
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