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Outsourcing markets in everything
...the Pasadena Now web site apparently posted an ad saying "We seek a newspaper journalist based in India to report on the city government and political scene of Pasadena, California, USA."
Via Matt Yglesias. Dani Rodrik has relevant and oft-overlooked remarks, though I think he is underemphasizing the case where trade starts by bidding people into higher-wage jobs.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on May 11, 2007 at 01:47 PM in Economics | Permalink
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Not to encourage this (it's bad enough competing with professors, I don't need to compete with scribblers in India), but writing about far off places by phone etc is not unheard of. I believe Richard Strout, who wrote the New Republic's TRB column for decades, did so from New York's Westchester County, hardly ever coming to Washington. If he'd had the Internet he might have done it just as well from Pune.
Posted by: Dan at May 11, 2007 2:35:16 PM
"Not to encourage this (it's bad enough competing with professors, I don't need to compete with scribblers in India), but writing about far off places by phone etc is not unheard of."
There are obviously profit opportunities on the US side brokering this sort of thing, probably business synergies between specialised consultants and the market for news in their specialised areas.
Posted by: jonfernquest at May 14, 2007 3:20:39 AM
