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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...HIRA: So many people have been arguing that this is all very good for us, it's really taken away any sense of urgency. We don't have good practical solutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Think Globally, Act Locally | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...software, New York University professor WILLIAM BAUMOL offered a much needed reality check: "The fundamental issue that we're losing in this discussion is, Is outsourcing bad for America? Is globalization good or bad for America?" Baumol, along with his fellow panelists on TIME's Board of Economists--RON HIRA of the Rochester Institute of Technology, CATHERINE MANN of the Institute for International Economics and MATTHEW SLAUGHTER of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth--proceeded to delve into that hotly contested question. Under prodding from TIME's JYOTI THOTTAM, the panel wrestled with issues of policy, politics and economic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Think Globally, Act Locally | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...HIRA: Let me give you my take on outsourcing. First, how much of it is going on? Really, no one knows. Companies are very reluctant to reveal how many jobs they've eliminated here in favor of moving work offshore. The government is not collecting the data, and I see this as a major failure. We do know that it's not insignificant, and it's accelerating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Think Globally, Act Locally | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...HIRA: I don't see R. and D. as a silver bullet. We increase R.-and-D. spending 10% or 15%, it's not going to create lots of new jobs. If it does create innovations, it's not clear that the spillover benefits of making those products will be done by U.S. labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Think Globally, Act Locally | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...HIRA: We have to shift our idea of innovation from company-centric views to workers. We need to think about innovation in terms of a healthy science and engineering labor market in the U.S. How do we get there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Think Globally, Act Locally | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

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