Tag: xenophobia

12 Jun 2008

Underlying Causes of Anti-Trade Opinions: Xenophobia or Rules-Sets

Tyler Cowen argues that most anti-trade positions are driven by xenophobia. Dani Rodrik argues that differing rule-sets (labor laws and such) are a serious source of concern. Tyler and his co-blogger Alex respond. All of those posts are worth reading.
In my mind, this is definitely not an either-or situation. I hope that before I die [...]

09 Apr 2008

Borjas Likes His Closed Clubs

His writing very rarely holds much sway for me. His values have him point out things that sometimes do not get mentioned by other economists who blog on immigration. Very often, he is right, or at least has strong evidence that he is right, on the questions of fact. But I just don’t care. I [...]