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Democracy & Technology Blog Big Blue China Bound

Bret Swanson
October 13, 2006
Globalization
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IBM announced today it has moved its procurement division, which spends $40 billion annually, to Shenzhen, China.
-Bret Swanson

Bret Swanson

Bret Swanson is a Senior Fellow at Seattle’s Discovery Institute, where he researches technology and economics and contributes to the Disco-Tech blog. He is currently writing a book on the abundance of the world economy, focusing on the Chinese boom and developing a new concept linking economics and information theory. Swanson writes frequently for the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal on topics ranging from broadband communications to monetary policy.