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Globalization is nothing more than a trade war with production looking for a country cheaper to produce. And the war has expanded from trade to production, research, technology, techniques, jobs, payrolls -- the economy. Every nation struggles in the economy war to maintain and build its economy -- except the United States. In the Jan. 7 debate in New Hampshire, Gov. Jon Huntsman exclaimed: "We don't want to start a trade war." Japan started the trade war after World War II by closing its market, subsidizing its manufacture, selling its exports at cost, making up the profit in its closed market -- making Toyota No. 1 as General Motors went broke. In the same debate, Gov. Mitt Romney exclaimed: "We've got to stop China from stealing our jobs." China steals intellectual property -- not jobs. President Obama and Congress do the "stealing" by continuing the tax benefit to offshore jobs. Corporate America invests in China because there are no labor, safety or environmental concerns. If you make a profit, you pay no corporate tax unless profits are repatriated. Just reinvest for more profit. If not profitable, walk away with no legacy cost. Facing this kind of competition in globalization, the U.S. must develop an economy attractive to invest and protect the investment.

The benefits of global integration have been associated with unprecedented leaps in human development indicators. Technological innovation has accelerated integration both virtually, through the development of fiber optics, the internet and mobile telephony, as well as physically with vast improvements in transport and infrastructure. The spread of people, ideas, trade and the inspiring education revolution has and will continue to offer enormous potential for poverty alleviation and economic opportunity. Yet the downside to globalization is that of increased inequality between and within countries. And the second "side effect" is that the likelihood of increasing numbers of global shocks and crises is growing, as is our vulnerability to them. Little is understood about the risks associated with large-scale system interdependencies. Well beyond purely the financial arena, new systemic risks loom large in areas such as climate change, water and food insecurity, pandemics, resource scarcity, antibiotic resistance, bioterrorism, cybersecurity and supply chain vulnerability.

Prior to offshore outsourcing, U.S. employees were shielded against low-wage foreign labor. Americans worked with more capital and better technology, and their higher productivity protected their higher wages. Outsourcing forces Americans to “compete head-to-head with foreign workers” by “undermining U.S. workers’ primary competitive advantage over foreign workers: their physical presence in the U.S.” and “by providing those overseas workers with the same technologies.” The result is a lose-lose situation for American employees, American businesses and the U.S. government. Outsourcing has brought record unemployment in engineering fields and a major drop in university enrollments in technical and scientific disciplines. Even many of the remaining jobs are filled by lower-paid foreigners brought in on H-1b and L-1 visas. American employees are discharged after being forced to train their foreign replacements.

Growth of scientific literature remains strong, while the world of science continues to flatten

Growth in the number of U.S. papers was a more modest 33,000, or 19%, from 178,000 in 1988 to 211,000 in 2003. From 1991 to 2002, there was no sustained growth. Annual totals held at between 194,000 and 203,000 and were at 196,000 for 2002. The 2003 total moved up to 211,000 for the biggest annual gain in many years.

The data on the papers in ACS journals come from a program that has expanded from 19 journals in 1988 to 33 in 2005 and so have a substantially higher growth rate than for chemistry itself.

U.S. share of the world's science and engineering graduates is declining rapidly as European and Asian universities, particularly from China, have increased S&E degrees while US degree production has stagnated.

The job market has worsened

Populous low income countries such as China and India can compete with the US in high tech by having many S&E specialists although those workers are a small proportion of their work force

Does port outsourcing improve productivity?

"The productivity of casual employees is often lower than that of permanent core employees of an organisation-in large measure, because use of casual and contract labour removes the incentive for an employer to provide training to those parts of the workforce."

Globalization has been called the new world order and the demise of democracy; the next step toward world peace, stability, and prosperity and the latest stage in the destruction of the earth and its inhabitants. In answer to our call for scholarly investigations and insights about the implications of globalization,

A leading UK based holiday and leisure group was considering outsourcing to help deliver operational efficiencies, and to detect and quickly respond to customer’s needs. Client Challenge Stabilize financial processes and improve financial controls Improve service levels and reduce cost of Finance and Accounting ( F&A), payroll and associated applications management Consider numerous outsourcing options and factors before making the decision. Because the firm’s ability to leverage a global service delivery model was limited, Alsbridge was chosen to guide them through the process.