Monday, December 11, 2006

Summers vs Baker

Okay, this is a surprise. Larry Summers writes an op-ed column about restoring fairness in the economy, Dean Baker attacks him from the left, and I find myself agreeing with Baker's policy proposal:
At the top of my list is free trade -- trade policies that would make it as easy for hospitals and law firms to hire doctors and lawyers from India and China as it is for Wal-Mart to buy cheap shoes from the developing world.