Free markets and immigration

Fri, 05/07/2010 - 3:04pm | posted by Jason Pye

Speaking at the Cato Institute in 2008, Jason Riley, a member of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, dispeled many of the myths and half-truths promoted by populists and nativists over immigration and also takes issue with many self-professed believers in free markets that make it rail against immigration.

It may be a couple years old, but it’s relevant today given the passage of the immigration bill in Arizona.

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There’s no reason or rationality among the reactionary populists who are fomenting nativist populism.

“Philosophy, despite the best obfuscatory intentions of philosophers, occasionally seeps out of the ivory towers and informs our lives.”

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Michael O. Powell on Sat, 05/08/2010 - 12:22am.
 

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