Blinder versus Bhagwati on Outsourcing of Services. In an essay in the journal Foreign Affairs, Princeton economist Alan Blinder warned that the United States potentially faces great dangers from...

Blinder versus Bhagwati on Outsourcing of Services. In an essay in the journal Foreign Affairs, Princeton economist Alan Blinder warned that the United States potentially faces great dangers from outsourcing of services. Columbia economist Jagdish Bhagwati was highly skeptical of this argument. Read both articles and come to your own assessment. The Blinder article, “Offshoring: The Next Industrial Revolution,” Foreign Affairs (March/April 2006), is available at http://www.foreignaffairs.com/ articles/61514/alan-s-blinder/offshoring-the-nextindustrial-revolution, accessed March 2015. The Bhagwati article, “Don’t Cry for Free Trade” (New York: Council of Foreign Relations, October 15, 2007), is available at http://www.cfr.org/trade/dont-cry-freetrade/p14526, accessed March 2015.