Here's how a lot of people think about global supply chains. Companies in the developed world, eager to source products and services in places where labor costs are low, have pushed jobs and, in some instances, entire industries offshore - textiles to Asia, call centers to India, auto parts to Mexico. If corporate leaders were to start promoting policies or practices that encourage shorter, less-global supply chains, this process might reverse itself. Rather than importing certain goods and services, the thinking goes, we should be thinking more deeply about how we could produce more of them at home.
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