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    Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration
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    Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration

    By Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith

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    An Economist “Our Books of the Year” Selection

    Economist Bryan Caplan makes a bold case for unrestricted immigration in this fact-filled graphic nonfiction.

    American policy-makers have long been locked in a heated battle over whether, how many, and what kind of immigrants to allow to live and work in the country. Those in favor of welcoming more immigrants often cite humanitarian reasons, while those in favor of more restrictive laws argue the need to protect native citizens.

    But economist Bryan Caplan adds a new, compelling perspective to the immigration debate: He argues that opening all borders could eliminate absolute poverty worldwide and usher in a booming worldwide economy—greatly benefiting humanity.

    With a clear and conversational tone, exhaustive research, and vibrant illustrations by Zach Weinersmith, Open Borders makes the case for unrestricted immigration easy to follow and hard to deny.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateOct 29, 2019
    ISBN9781250766236
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    Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration
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    Bryan Caplan

    Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and one of the world’s leading advocates of free migration. He is the author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, named "the best political book of the year" by the New York Times; Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids and The Case Against Education; and is a blogger for EconLog. He has been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Law and Economics, and Intelligence, and appeared on ABC, Fox News, MSNBC, and C-SPAN. An openly nerdy man who loves role-playing games and graphic novels, he’s live in Oakton, Virginia, with his wife and four kids.

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    • 1/5
      Read David Graeber instead. This is white supremacist nonsense.
      I was eager to see a graphic guide to open borders policies. What I got instead was a promise that assimilating immigrants would not disrupt the 1% from hoarding resources. It would simply increase the numbers of the working poor!
      Meanwhile, it pretends that the G20 had nothing to do with imposing the international economic policies that ensure the persistence of actual source of the global poverty gap.
      Further, it insists that all immigrants will be even lower-skilled than the lowest-skilled American workers who will get to supervise them because the immigrants will all have poor English skills. Pure fiction.
      Lastly, it pretends that we don’t have rampant poverty in the U.S. right now!
      Or that economists haven’t encouraged U.S. companies to demand tax breaks from the countries where they prefer to open factories: those with the lowest worker wages and non-existent worker protections.
      These are only a few of the willful distortions of the truth in the first 2 chapters.
      Pure fiction. Intentionally misleading.

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    • 2/5
      I support open borders, but this book argues for it with a lot of... bad reasons. It equates assimilation to progress, and at one point assures the reader that the govt doesn't listen to poor voters anyway so poor immigrants won't change much here. Yikes

      3 people found this helpful