Our New Book on How Immigration Affects Economic Institutions

Alex NowrastehAbout 15 years ago,Benjamin Powell and I started working together on an academic paper about Somalia that theJournal of Economic Behavior and Organizationeventually published. We corresponded entirely through email on the project while our other co ‐​author Ryan Ford worked with Powell in person. It wasn’t until years later that we even met in person. But little did either of us know that our collaboration together would eventually result in a co ‐​authored book. Today is the release date for our bookWretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions. You could be reading the kindle version within a minute of purchasing it.This book isn ’t our first research collaboration on immigration and the topic has only grown in importance since then. It’s the most hotly contested policy topic in political debate in the United States and most of the developed world although it’s been temporarily knocked aside by the pandemic. After COVI D-19 subsides, immigration will reemerge as one of the big topics of debate again. Our book will help you understand one important, widely felt, and differently expressed argument against immigration.First, let me throw in some backstory. In 2013, I wrote a blog post entitled “Immigration Does Not Decrease Economic Freedom” that very simply examined the relationship between stocks of immigrants and economic freedom in the United States. At that time, I was ...
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