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Episode: 581. What Both Parties Get Wrong About Immigration | Freakonomics Radio
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
Ours Was the Shining Future
Buy on Amazon"David Leonhardt has other talents: I'm a senior writer at The New York Times and I'm the author of 'Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream.' Leonhardt has been writing about immigration for years."
The Population Bomb
Buy on Amazon"Listeners who were old enough might remember the book 'The Population Bomb': the fear that the world was going to starve to death because there were too many people, birth rates were too high, and agricultural production was too low. There was a man named John Tanton in Michigan, an ophthalmologist who was an avid conservationist."
The Truth About Immigration
Buy on Amazon"That's Zeke Hernandez; he's a professor of management at Wharton and the author of a forthcoming book called 'The Truth About Immigration.' We met him in part one of this series."
The Truth About Immigration
Buy on Amazon"Here again is Zeke Hernandez, author of 'The Truth About Immigration.' It's a complicated issue, but there is a legitimate complaint by states and localities that become the gateways for a disproportionate number of immigrants."
The Truth About Immigration
Buy on Amazon"Zeke Hernandez's forthcoming book is called 'The Truth About Immigration.' In it, he spends a lot of time untangling and simplifying the many components of this particularly complex issue."