Book · 2022 · Business & Economics
The Culture Transplant
How Migrants Make the Economies They Move To a Lot Like the Ones They Left
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As I emphasize in the Culture Transplant, the ethnic diversity channel is actually the least important of any of the channels I discuss. So I'm open to this thought that what you're saying will actually happen and maybe we'll just find something else to get mad at each other about like social media tribes or religious groups.
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Dwarkesh Patel I'm sure you saw the book that was released in 2020 titled Wretched Refuse? where they showed a slight posi… 2
Discussed
“I'm sure you saw the book that was released in 2020 titled Wretched Refuse? where they showed a slight positive relationship between immigration and free-market laws.”
Discussed
“We can come back to this later, but one of the interesting things I think from the book was — you have this chapter on China and the Chinese people as a sort of unstoppable force for free market capitalism. And it's interesting, as you mentioned in the book, that China is a poorest majority Chinese country.”
Garett Jones I start off the book with this. One thing they could do is create a welcoming environment for large numbers… 2
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“I start off the book with this. One thing they could do is create a welcoming environment for large numbers of Chinese migrants to move there persistently. I don't think that's of course the only thing that could ever work, but I think it's something that's within the range of policy for at least some poor countries.”
Discussed
“As I emphasize in the Culture Transplant, the ethnic diversity channel is actually the least important of any of the channels I discuss. So I'm open to this thought that what you're saying will actually happen and maybe we'll just find something else to get mad at each other about like social media tribes or religious groups.”
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Plugged
“He's most recently the author of The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move To a Lot Like the Ones They Left and also the author of 10% Less Democracy and Hive Mind. We'll get into all three of those books.”
Passing
“I try not to Math this up for a popular book, but it means we face a trade off between being a small country with super awesome positive externalities for all the workers by just selecting the best people.”