A Dissenter on Outsourcing States His Case

At 89, Paul Samuelson, the Nobel laureate in economics and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , still seems to have plenty of intellectual edge and ample ability to antagonize and amuse.

His dissent from the mainstream economic consensus about outsourcing and globalization will appear this month in a distinguished professional journal, cloaked in clever phrases and theoretical equations, but clearly aimed at the orthodoxy: Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve; N.Gregory Mankiw, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers; and Jagdish Bhagwati, a leading international economist and professor at Columbia University.