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James Welle: I am interested in this as well. It would be interesting to look at history in other industries ( the auto industry for example ) and try to predict what may or may not happen to the US technology workforce due to outsourcing. It would like to look at other related issues such as unions as well and do an analysis of how this could benefit or harm the industry. | James Welle: I am interested in this as well. It would be interesting to look at history in other industries ( the auto industry for example ) and try to predict what may or may not happen to the US technology workforce due to outsourcing. It would like to look at other related issues such as unions as well and do an analysis of how this could benefit or harm the industry. | ||
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[Damon May] Along the lines of a blurb I just wrote on the main discussion page (http://cubist.cs.washington.edu/CSEP590TU-wiki/index.php/Talk:CSE590TU), I think it'd be interesting to do a project on the current state of outsourcing in the IT industry, projections for the future, and the things that government and industry can and/or should do to stem the trend.
SMM: Hint: If you aren't already familiar with them, you should brush up on the economic argument that free trade always makes society richer -- the buzzwords are "comparative advantage" and "returns to trade." The material is not hard: Any intro econ book should have it. Of course, we've never taken free trade to the extreme of letting human beings flow freely back and forth across borders. Outsourcing blurs that distinction.
James Welle: I am interested in this as well. It would be interesting to look at history in other industries ( the auto industry for example ) and try to predict what may or may not happen to the US technology workforce due to outsourcing. It would like to look at other related issues such as unions as well and do an analysis of how this could benefit or harm the industry.
James Welle: Here is a reference on comparative advantage. http://internationalecon.com/v1.0/ch40/40c000.html
