According to Research Associate Thomas I. Palley, global outsourcing represents a new economic challenge that calls for … a new set of institutions. In this brief, he expands upon the problems of offshore outsourcing as outlined in Public … Policy Brief no. 86 and focuses on the microeconomic foundations. He argues that outsourcing is a central element of …

growth of domestic and foreign outsourcing and offshoring. First, outsourcing and offshoring are poorly measured in U … impossible to fully assess the impact that mismeasurement and cost savings from outsourcing and offshoring have had on measured …