Offshoring of American Jobs

"A provocative, entertaining, and high-level discussion of offshoring and its consequences. The debate between Bhagwati and Blinder -- and the comments of a distinguished set of panel members -- will bring the reader to the frontier of thinking on one of the most important policy issues of our time." --Robert W. Staiger, Department of Economics, Stanford University "This outstanding volume provides an exceptional contribution to the debate on offshoring. The two main writers, Jagdish Bhagwati and Alan Blinder are both world-class economists who combine clear and original arguments and deep insights on the subject. It will become a classic and is a must-read for policymakers, economists, scholars or anyone who is interested in this important global phenomenon."--K.C. Fung, Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz -- K.C. Fung "Outsourcing has become synonymous to losses of jobs and income in the US popular debate. But the views on outsourcing among academic economists are much more diverse. Reflecting this divide, this book provides an entertaining discussion, conducted by distinguished economists, of the likely effects of outsourcing in the years to come."--Henrik Horn, Professor of International Economics, Senior Research Fellow, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm -- Henrik Horn "Outsourcing has become synonymous with losses of jobs and income in the US popular debate. But the views on outsourcing among academic economists are much more diverse. Reflecting this divide, this book provides an entertaining discussion, conducted by distinguished economists, of the likely effects of outsourcing in the years to come." Henrik Horn , Professor of International Economics, Senior Research Fellow, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm "This outstanding volume provides an exceptional contribution to the debate on outsourcing. The two main writers, Jagdish Bhagwati and Alan Blinder are both world-class economists who combine clear and original arguments and deep insights on the subject. It will become a classic and is a must-read for policymakers, economists, scholars, or anyone who is interested in this important global phenomenon." K.C. Fung , Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz

Jagdish N. Bhagwati is University Professor of Economics, Law, and International Relations at Columbia University and former Adviser to the Director General of GATT, Arthur Dunkel. He is the author (with Arvind Panagariya) of Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries. Alan S. Blinder is G. S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of The Quiet Revolution: Central Banking Goes Modern and other books. Benjamin M. Friedman is William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University and the author of The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. Richard Freedman, who designed the computer program, is a product marketer working on MS-DOS at the Microsoft Corporation. Douglas A. Irwin is Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Free Trade under Fire, Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression, and other books.