Globalization, Offshoring and the Community College

In his best selling book The World Is Flat, Tom Friedman (2005) describes how globalism, with its advances in software capabilities, low-cost telecommunications and transportation, is enabling the increased movement of people, ideas, and goods and services across national borders. However, a recent article in Foreign Affairs (2006) written by Alan S. Blinder, a professor of economics at Princeton University and former vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve under Alan Greenspan, offers a more balanced view.