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Likewise. Were people really arguing that offshoring was irrelevant to the decline in American manufacturing? I don't follow American politics, but it seems com
by jdietrich 9y ago
Likewise. Were people really arguing that offshoring was irrelevant to the decline in American manufacturing? I don't follow American politics, but it seems completely absurd that anyone would make such a claim. If true, then it's no wonder that Trump won the election.
- archgoon 9y agoI don't recall this (everything was really due to Automation) being a serious bone of contention by anyone. The articles the article links to are all "This is totally counterintutive, but is it true?", which is basically just clickbait. As far as free trade philosophy was concerned during the election, Trump (and Bernie) got Hillary to back down from supporting the TPP, which seems to support the idea that politicians believed that outsourcing was reducing manufacturing jobs in the US. So as far as American Politics were concerned, everyone, including the free traders, believed that free trade hurt manufacturing jobs at home. It seems that the author is making this entire scenario unnecessarily political and polarizing. "Rogue Economist finds blinding obvious flaw by incompetent elites"; which, given that this is Houseman (one of the economic elites), it's very much kinda not?