Trade barriers and outsourcing do not destroy or create net jobs; they change which jobs exist, shifting workers toward goods where there is no comparative advantage and away from goods where there is—so Blinder's projection of 40 million service jobs at risk over ~10-15 years amounts to ~3% of jobs per year in an economy where ~20% of jobs already churn and are replaced annually.

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Speaker

David Henderson

Evidence Quote

trade barriers don't create jobs they change jobs ... people specializing in the goods in which we don't have a comparative advantage rather than the goods that we do

Source

David Henderson on Disagreeable Economists 7/30/2007EconTalk
Created: 6/16/2026, 3:03:17 PM

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