This is part of a series of weekly posts with the most interesting content from the Open Borders Action Group on Facebook. Do join the group to weigh in on existing discussions or start your own (you might want to read this post before joining).
General points related to migration and opinions about migration
Post by Vipul Naik, August 30, 2014, asking for what keyhole solutions might have stopped the closing of the US border in the 1920s. 2 likes, 4 comments.
This is part of a series of weekly posts with the most interesting content from the Open Borders Action Group on Facebook. Do join the group to weigh in on existing discussions or start your own (you might want to read this post before joining).
Posts about Nathan Smith’s draft paper on open borders
Post by Nathan Smith, August 18, 2014, about what he’d like people to take away from his draft paper on the global economic impact of open borders. 2 likes, 5 comments.
General points related to migration and opinions about migration
Post by Tiago Santos, August 22, 2014, noting that Brazil is working on a bill which would allow potential migrants to ask for a work visa even without a job offer. They would have one year to find a job in Brazil. The post links to the text of the bill in Portuguese. 12 likes, 2 comments.
This is part of a series of weekly posts with the most interesting content from the Open Borders Action Group on Facebook. Do join the group to weigh in on existing discussions or start your own (you might want to read this post before joining).
Posts related to Nathan Smith’s draft paper on the global economic impact of open borders
Post by Vipul Naik, August 12, 2014, linking to Open Borders Bingo! by Art Carden, August 12, 2014. 4 likes.
Post by John Lee, August 12, 2014, on a different approach to measuring the historical prevalence of the term “illegal” for immigrants, linking to the NYT Chronicle search term. 3 likes, 4 comments.
Post by Vipul Naik, August 14, 2014, linking to Pinterest search results for open borders. 15 comments.
Post by Michelangelo Landgrave, August 14, 2014, asking whether natives and foreigners have different elasticities with respect to the quality of government. 1 like, 3 comments.
Post by Bryan Pick, August 14, 2014, noting the other side of the political externalities coin: when political institutions fail to adapt to a changing populace, and linking to Change and chaos in Ferguson by Megan McArdle, August 14, 2014, Bloomberg View.
Post by John Lee, August 15, 2014, linking to Q&A on the crisis at the border, part II with Lis Wiehl, where Lee describes why he believes in open borders and addresses some other questions related to the current child migrant situation faced by the United States. 5 likes, 5 comments.
Post by Vipul Naik, August 17, 2014, with the proceedings of the Open Borders meetup on Saturday August 16, 2014, in the San Francisco Bay Area. 15 likes, 3 comments.
This is part of a series of weekly posts with the most interesting content from the Open Borders Action Group on Facebook. Do join the group to weigh in on existing discussions or start your own (you might want to read this post before joining).
Posts related to Nathan Smith’s draft paper on the global economic impact of open borders
For prior literature on the topic, see the double world GDP page on this website. For an earlier blog post by Smith that lays out an early version of his model (that he expands on in the draft paper), see The Global Economic Impact of Open Borders: My Take, published February 8, 2014.
Here are Smith’s OBAG posts this week about his draft paper:
Post by Nathan Smith, August 6, 2014, uploading the file to the Facebook group. The file can be alternatively accessed via Google Drive here. The post received 7 likes and 66 comments.
Smith has also uploaded to the Facebook group his raw data and the files with the STATA code he used for his analysis. You can access all his files under the Files section of OBAG.
Post by Nathan Smith, August 7, 2014, about the high correlation he found between his measure of human capital (inferred using a production function) and HDI. 1 like, 30 comments.
Post by Nathan Smith, August 7, 2014, asking for suggestions for places to present his paper and possible venues for publication of his paper (after he completes it). 2 likes, 9 comments.
Post by Nathan Smith, August 7, 2014, noting that according to his draft paper, open borders leads to a major reinforcement of the dominance of the West. 4 likes, 4 comments.
Post by Nathan Smith noting that in Scenario 2 in his paper, unskilled workers worldwide would see their wages converge to 44% of the current US level. 7 comments.
General points related to migration and public opinion on migration
Post by John T. Kennedy, August 6, 2014, on the relationship between a basic income guarantee (BIG) and open borders/migration policy. The post links to the August 2014 issue of Cato Unbound (featuring Matt Zwolinski, Michael Huemer, Jim Manzi, and Robert H. Frank) that is devoted to a discussion of the moral permissibility and desirability of a basic income guarantee, with a focus on a libertarian perspective. 1 like, 13 comments.
Post by Drew Stonebraker, August 5, 2014, on how to address the argument that we already have open borders for anybody who wishes to legally migrate and is willing to comply with the law. 2 likes, 10 comments.
Post by Drew Stonebraker on how many of the most vocal opponents of illegal immigration that he’s aware of are legal immigrants themselves. 2 comments.
This is part of a series of weekly posts with the most interesting content from the Open Borders Action Group on Facebook. Do join the group to weigh in on existing discussions or start your own (you might want to read this post before joining).
Post by Nathan Smith, July 30, 2014, about his draft paper on the global economic impact of open borders (see Smith’s earlier post on the subject for Open Borders: The Casehere). 7 likes, 19 comments.
Post by John Lee, July 29, 2014, linking to the short book Homelands by Stephan Faris. 3 likes, 10 comments, including a detailed description by Lee of the book and its passages that he found most interesting.
Post by Vipul Naik asking people for their thoughts on how influential John Tanton has been in shaping the migration debate in the United States. 7 comments.
Photo post by John Lee from Mae Ngai’s book Impossible Subects. 26 likes.
Photo post by Michelangelo Landgrave with an analysis of a data set on DACA applicants, July 29, 2014. 3 likes, 6 comments.
Post by David Ong, August 2, 2014, asking for resources that would link potential employers to refugees, and linking to HireRefugees.org as an example of such a resource. 1 comment.
