… is from page 195 of Arnold Kling‘s excellent 2004 book, Learning Economics:
Outsourcing is the basis of all economic activity. Every time we trade in the market instead of doing something ourselves, we are outsourcing.
DBx: Yes.
And the burden of persuasion lies heavily on those persons who insist that the economics of Jones’s outsourcing of tasks to persons outside of the political jurisdiction in which Jones lives differs categorically from Jones’s outsourcing of tasks to person within the same political jurisdiction in which Jones lives.
