This book proposes an institutional theory of trade and development, challenging the idea that development is synonymous with 'upgrading' in global value chains.[...]
Outsourcing Economics has a double meaning. First, it is a book about the economics of outsourcing. Second, it examines the way that economists have understood globalization as a pure market phenomenon, and as a result have 'outsourced' the explanation of world economic forces to other disciplines. [...]