Globalization: An Election Issue Stuck in the Past

Globalization: An Election Issue Stuck in the Past
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Globalization was a 30-year trend that is now almost over. Sending manufacturing to China is no longer worth the expense: Its wages have risen, and companies nowadays use technology rather than people to make things (a modern refrigerator, for example, is made using about two hours of human labour), so it's more convenient to do it at home.

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