Sweatshops, Exploitation and International Trade

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‎12-11-2015 01:25 PM

Originally posted on September 11, 2010.

It’s a little dated but this John Stossel video is useful for generating discussion about international trade, wages and exploitation.  See also the section in our International Trade chapter on child labor and in our chapter on Ethics about exploitation.  Also related are material in the labor chapter on why janitors in India and American earn different wages despite performing similar jobs.

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Alex Tabarrok is Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and director of research for The Independent Institute. Tabarrok is co-author with Tyler Cowen of the popular economics blog, Marginal Revolution. His recent research looks at bounty hunters, judicial incentives and elections, crime control, patent reform, methods to increase the supply of human organs for transplant, and the regulation of pharmaceuticals. He is the editor of the books, Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science; The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society; and Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and The Control of Crime. His papers have appeared in the Journal of Law and Economics, Public Choice, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, The American Law and Economics Review, Kyklos and many other journals. His popular articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other magazines and newspapers.