Friday, March 26, 2004

More offshoring debate fodder A Thorough Look At The Real Issues Around Offshoring. . . . article written by Daniel Drezner taking a very thorough look at all the issues associated with offshoring. . .  The quick summary is that the direct impact of offshoring is much less than people make it out to be. The upsides of offshoring greatly outweigh the downsides. Protectionists policies make things much worse, and actually accelerate the problems people think are caused by offshoring. As for what we should do - there are three areas to focus on: (1) making sure companies understand the true costs of offshoring (and that they're higher than they seem at first) (2) making sure we have programs in place to help those directly impacted by offshoring and (3) making sure politicians don't take the "easy" political response, which will cause a lot more harm to the people they're trying to help. [Techdirt] This is a fairly dispassionate, rational big-picture look at offshoring, worth the time to read. 5:21:43 PM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

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