The last week has seen the ‘great US ousourcing debate’ hit both new highs, and new lows. On the plus side would be the declarations of the oft maligned Greg Mankiw to the effect that the “outsourcing” of jobs is beneficial to the United States economy (even with the qualification ‘perhaps’ this has merit - [...]
I don’t know if he had Europe specifically in mind, but this is the message from Singapore’s finance minister Lee Kuan Yew in this interview in the latest issue of Yale Global Online. As he puts it:”If you’re not driven by profit, and do what the communists used to, which means price equals cost [...]
Even though it may appear that this post runs along much the same lines as my last two or three, I should warn you: appearances are sometimes deceptive. The origins of what I want to say here stretch back in time two or three days to some comments I made on an earlier post [...]
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