Tag: Cheap Labor

VIDEO via Quartz: NAFTA explained by avocados. And shoes.

Everyone hates NAFTA. But what was NAFTA actually supposed to do? Did it deliver on its promise? To understand that, you have to look at America’s relationships with two goods: […]

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VIDEO via VOX: Why Chinese Manufacturing Wins

Topics: GDP, Containerization, Shenzhen, Foreign Investment, Special Economic Zones, Tax Incentives, Free Market, Cheap Labor, Currency Manipulation, Supply Chain, Cultural Difference, Geographic distance, Manufacturing, Middle-Class, Secondary Sector, Automation, Outsourcing, neocolonialism,

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