Since I am flying to another island to take the GRE today, and would like to replicate the results I got 16 years ago when I took it, I'm going to use an old teacher trick of asking a robust question and stepping back.

In a post-industrial economy (one in which manufacturing jobs have been leaving the country for lower wages abroad for decades), what alternatives do we have? What data do we have for the long-term benefits of those alternatives?