Outsourcing
Politics, Manufacturing, and Change
Saturday, October 25th, 2008In the United States, the victorious presidential candidate must win a majority of the electoral votes. Almost all states are winner takes all. The magnitude of victory or defeat is irrelevant, all that matters is the outcome. It is not surprising then, that presidential candidates spend most of their time campaigning in […]
Firefighting and Immigration?
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008I’ve been reading up on the economics of fighting wildfires in the West. As an undergraduate, I had a few friends who fought wildfires during the summer. Most of them worked for the U.S. Forest Service, but one was employed by a private company which received government contracts. The use of private […]
Huckabee is Mistaken
Sunday, October 21st, 2007Recent comments by Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee via Krugman’s blog:
“Sometimes we talk about why we’re importing so many people in our workforce,” the former Arkansas governor said. “It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had […]