Yet the vast body of evidence suggests that technological changes were a much bigger driver in global wage patterns than trade. That is, technology, not trade, was the big story of the twentieth-century economy (of course, the two interact, with trade helping to diffuse and stimulate technology, but this is a matter of semantics.)
让我们回头看看印度和中国。全球化在上个世纪的多数时候都快速发展， 近20年来的发展更是尤为迅速。但多数证据显示：技术变革能够比贸易更有效地推动全球薪酬格局的发展。也就是说，技术，而非贸易，才是21世纪经济的主题（当然，这两者相互影响，贸易刺激技术发展，推动技术传播，但这恐怕更多的是一种文字游戏）。