Kling, on foreign outsourcing Arnold

Kling, on foreign outsourcing

Arnold Kling's July 14 Tech Central Station column, here: "Please, Outsource to My Daughter ".

""�many of us have our shirts laundered at professional cleaners rather than wash and iron them ourselves. Anyone who advised us to "protect" ourselves from the "unfair competition" of low-paid laundry workers by doing our own wash would be thought looney."
--Alan Blinder

By Alan Blinder's definition, longtime conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly is looney. And, as Glenn Reynolds pointed out in a column on outsourcing, she is not alone. The phenomenon of using the Internet to outsource white-collar work has created the latest fad in economic terrors -- fear that the United States is about to be run over by that economic juggernaut: India...."

I learned about this from Kash at AngryBear, who wonders about the political implications of outsourcing white color jobs: "International Trade Hits a New Group". Here's a link to the Glenn Reynold's Tech Central Station column Kling mentions this also discusses the political implications: "Outsourcing and Elections ".