Ed Leamer on Outsourcing and Globalization

EconTalk

• Episode: Ed Leamer on Outsourcing and Globalization
• Website: EconTalk
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• Duration: 01:05:09
• Published: 2007-07-09 08:30

Is outsourcing good for America? How does foreign competition affect wages in the United States? Ed Leamer, professor of economics at UCLA, talks about the effects of outsourcing on wages, jobs, and the U.S. standard of living. Drawing on a review of Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat, Leamer talks with host Russ Roberts about technology, trade, productivity and inequality.