Open Borders: The Case

Open Borders: The Case

"The Efficient, Egalitarian, Libertarian, Utilitarian Way to Double World GDP" — Bryan Caplan
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      • Right to migrate
      • Self-ownership versus state ownership
      • Obligations to strangers
    • Utilitarian
      • Double world GDP
      • End of poverty
    • Egalitarian
      • End of poverty
      • Rawlsian
      • Equal opportunity
      • Global apartheid
    • Human capabilities
    • Bleeding-heart libertarian
    • Conservative and small-government
  • Practical case
    • Benefits to migrants
      • Stated and revealed preferences of migrants and potential migrants
      • Concrete benefits to migrants
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      • Immigration tariffs
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  • More harms
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      • Second-order crime
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    • Foreign control and loss of sovereignty
      • Immigrant suffrage
  • Harms (theoretical bases)
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      • Dysfunctional immigrant culture
      • IQ deficit
      • Skills mismatch
    • Heterogeneity
      • Social capital decline
      • Nativist backlash
      • Culture clash
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    • Harms to immigrant-sending countries
      • Brain drain
      • Delay political reform
    • Global harms
      • Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs
      • Cheap labor leading to a technological slowdown
      • Increased footprint
      • Animal welfare
    • Precautionary principle
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    • Philosophical bases
      • Citizenism
      • Territorialism
      • Local inequality aversion
      • Nation as family
      • State responsibility thesis
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      • Killing vs letting die (act/omission distinction)
      • Citizenism
      • Collective property rights
      • Anarcho-capitalist counterfactual
  • Restrictionist metaphors
    • Alien invasion metaphor
    • Electing a new people
  • Attacks on advocates
    • Ideological blindness and stupidity
      • Elite conscience salve
      • Leftist agenda
      • Libertarian pipedream
      • Economist blind spot
      • Sentimentalism
      • Asperger’s syndrome
    • Self-interest accusations
      • Corporatist agenda
      • Herd-building
      • Potential immigrant

Bryan Caplan: Immigration restrictions: a solution in search of a problem

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Here is a Powerpoint of the slides. Here is a blog post by Bryan Caplan announcing the video and slides. Also, see the reviews: Caplan on Immigration by David Henderson and The Best Open-Immigration Lecture Ever by Jacob Hornberger.

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