Review of Bringing the Jobs Home: How the Left Created the Outsourcing Crisis--and How We Can Fix It (Hardcover)

When I picked up this book I thought it would offer me two things.I thought it would be about outsourcing and it would provide solutions to the problems.Sadly, Buchholz's book did neither.Instead, it provided many critiques from an American capitalist's point of view about society.In that regard it did a satisfactory job, although there are many popular books that did a far better job of doing it (Sowell's Basic Economics and even Stossel's Give me a Break).

The first 20 pages of the book offered hope that it'd stay on the topic of outsourcing; however even they were disappointing.There were few facts supporting free trade or details about why outsourcing can help an economy.After the first chapter Buchholz quickly veers off outsourcing and into taxes, education, tort reform and many other faults within our society.In doing this though he rarely talks about how they relate to outsourcing.This book is especially lacking in any quantitative analysis.Many of these facts are seen as given and therefore don't require support.Finally, his last chapter on our cultural exports seemed to be a socially conservative polemic that was out of place in an otherwise economically focused book.If you are looking for a book about outsourcing or an above introductory look at economic problems in the United States, I'd look elsewhere.Buchholz's book is strictly for those who haven't read alot about modern American politics and are looking for a partisan introduction to them.

The main positive about this book is it's an easy and quick read.At 179 pages you won't waste too much time on it.The author does a very good job at making the book flow.He adds many pop culture references, although they seem forced at times.Because of the very fluid writing style and his obvious intelligence, I might give his other books a chance.But hopefully they'll be a little better content wise than this one.



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