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Review and assessment

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A very nice, beginning article. Still somewhat in narrative outline form, not necessarily representing the broad range of perspectives on the topic. Thus, in my estimation, Class=C. Some possible aspects for future development:

  • Would be helpful to develop and include some graphs over time to illustrate the stated long-term trends.
  • Add a section on summarizing the variety of perspectives and debates on this topic.
  • One could take a longer- or shorter-term view of this topic. GDP has been formally measured only for a relatively short period of time. But international trade has gone on for centuries. How would one quantitatively estimate millennial trends in international trade?
  • What are the challenges in estimating international trade (transfer pricing, tax havens, faux reporting...)?
  • In an era of globalized production-chains, what does it mean for components to go from one country to the next, get sub-assembled, re-assembled, and then shipped back to the country of origin? How many times does one product and its components get measured?

Kind regards, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 10:24, 11 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]