Here’s our weekly installment of links from around the web (see here for all link roundups). As usual, linking does not imply endorsement.
- He’s on the prowl in Africa as lions stalk poor refugees by Bob Braun, N. J. News, September 17, 2007.
- Why ‘Brain Drain’ Can Actually Benefit African Countries: A new study reveals that the farther African migrants move, the more they increase exports in their home countries. by Shaun Raviv, February 11, 2014, The Atlantic.
- Posts on the Swiss referendum:
- The Swiss vote for immigration curbs: how much immigration is possible without a backlash? by Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution, February 10, 2014.
- What the Swiss Vote Really Shows by Bryan Caplan, EconLog, February 10, 2014.
- Swiss immigration controls are directed against those who are like the Swiss by Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution, February 11, 2014.
- Immigration Restriction on a Kuznets Curve: Switzerland and Arizona by Alex Nowrasteh, Cato at Liberty, February 12, 2014.
- Conversation between GiveWell, Good Ventures, and Michael Clemens, conversation November 13, 2013, published February 12, 2014. See also:
- Our page on Michael Clemens for a list of Clemens’ key contributions to the study of migration and advocacy of freer migration.
- GiveWell conversations page (has a section on conversations with migration scholars).
- An Open Borders blog post about an earlier conversation between Clemens and GiveWell.
- Practical vs. Moral Objections to Open Borders by Jason Brennan, Bleeding Heart Libertarians, February 10, 2014. This was in response to the first of Cowen’s posts about the Swiss referendum.
- Why cosmopolitanism is utopian but useful nonetheless by Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution, February 14, 2014. This was in response to Bryan Caplan’s post about the Swiss referendum, and included a general discussion of cosmopolitanism in contrast with the citizenism advocated by Steve Sailer.