The Economics of Outsourcing: How Should Policy Respond?

Thomas Palley

Review of Social Economy, 2008, vol. 66, issue 3, 279-295

Abstract: Outsourcing is a central element of economic globalization, representing a new form of competition. Responding to outsourcing calls for policies that enhance national competitiveness and establish rules ensuring acceptable forms of competition. Viewing outsourcing through the lens of competition connects with early 20th-century American institutional economics. The policy challenge is to construct institutions that ensure stable, robust flows of demand and income, thereby addressing the Keynesian problem while preserving incentives for economic action. This was the approach embedded in the New Deal, which successfully addressed the problems of the Depression era. Global outsourcing poses the challenge anew and calls for creative institutional arrangements to shape the nature of competition.

Keywords: global outsourcing; globalization; international trade; institutionalism; competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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