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Outsourcing is Good for You

Posted by michael on from the suck-it-up dept.

gManZboy writes "Catherine Mann, from the Institute for International Economics, has a look at What Global Outsourcing Means for U.S. IT Workers up over at Queue. She's got an interesting argument: outsourcing means cheaper IT products, meaning businesses will buy more, meaning more products to make & manage = net gain of IT jobs in the US. Ummm, did you follow that?"

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  1. Re:bah by nwbvt · · Score: 5, Informative

    Do you know what is even more amazing? That people who have no knowledge on the matter think they can do a better job than virtually every economist who has studied the issue.

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