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More common sense on outsourcing
Computer programmers are a highly paid lot in the United States. Both the U.S. and India would be better off if lower-wage Indians did more of the programming and the U.S. did more innovating. Read here about tech executive Marc Andreesen, who is willing to come out and offer three cheers for outsourcing. Here is my previous post on outsourcing.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on February 4, 2004 at 08:44 AM in Economics | Permalink
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