Topics for final trade paper

Choose ONE of the following topics for a paper on new developments in international trade. The paper is to be 5 to 7 pages in length, with appropriate footnotes and bibliography, and should discuss more than one view on the topic. The assignment is not simply to summarize the paper or papers, but to contrast views and decide who makes the better case.

Trade and wages.
- Krugman's conundrum Economist, April 17,2008.
- Trade and Wages, Reconsidered by Paul Krugman, with comments and discussion by Douglas Irwin, Lawrence Katz and Robert Z. Lawrence.
- Slow Wage Growth and US Income Inequality: Is Trade to Blame? Unpublished Paper, June 2007. This is a first draft of Lawrence's more extended work, Blue-Collar Blues, Peterson Institute, Jan. 2008. You can read the preview chapters online.
Offshoring and Outsourcing
- Offshoring: The Next Industrial Revolution by Alan Blinder. Foreign Affairs, 85:2 (2006), pp. 113-28.
- Where Ricardo and Mill Rebut and Confirm Arguments of Mainstream Economists Supporting Globalization by Paul Samuelson, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 18:3 (Summer, 2004), pp. 135-146.
- The Muddles over Outsourcing by Jagdish Bhagwati, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 18:4 (Autumn, 2004), pp. 93-114.
- "Fear" and Offshoring: The Scope and Potential Impact of Imports and Exports of Services by J.Bradford Jensen and Lori Kletzer, Peterson Institute Policy Brief PB08-1, January, 2008.
- Outsourcing -- Stains on the White Collar? by Jacob Funk Kirkegaard. Unpublished paper, Peterson Institute, 2004. This is briefer than Kirkegaard's Offshoring, Outsourcing and Production Relocation , Peterson Institute Working Paper, WP 07-02, April 2007.
New Trade Theory
- Is Free Trade Passe? by Paul Krugman. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1:2(Autumn, 1987), pp. 131-144.
- New Theories of Trade Among Industrial Countries by Paul Krugman, American Economic Review, 73:2 (May, 1983), pp. 343-347.
- Krugman's Nobel Prize Page
  See especially:
  - Information for the Public for a very brief introduction.
  - Trade and Geography -- Economies of Scale for detailed and more technical background.
  - Krugman's Nobel Lecture -- video (Windows Media)
  - Interview with Adam Smith (no, not THAT Adam Smith) -- video (Windows Media)