Bringing the Jobs Home: How the Left Created the Outsourcing Crisis–And How We Can Fix It by Todd G. Buchholz. I’ve seen this guy on both C-SPAN booknotes and the Cable news circuit, and I can tell that this guy really knows his stuff and can communicate it in a very clear and concise way. His basic argument in the book is that various institutions or policies in the U.S. (civil law system, pro-union immigration rules, the tax system, and the Social Security system) have caused two outcomes that have damaged the American economy: to make the American worker too expensive, and to encourage foreign born graduate students (educated at our universities) to start the businesses overseas.
He also brings up the glaring contrast, which I have been commenting on for years, between our embarrassing K-12 school system and our higher education system which is the best in the world. He is not afraid to name the causes even, he points out that competition and failure are an active part of higher education, while the K-12 system has been taken over by the interests of minority activists and the teachers union.
Pick it up and read it if you see it.
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