Comments on: Krugman on Immigration and Inequality

By: goabroad

goabroad — Sun, 17 May 2009 12:41:30 +0000

The time is about to come when immigrants will have the power to swing the results of elections.

By: goabroad

goabroad — Sun, 17 May 2009 05:41:30 +0000

The time is about to come when immigrants will have the power to swing the results of elections.

By: Krugman On Immigration at Hispanic Pundit

Krugman On Immigration at Hispanic Pundit — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:27:34 +0000

[...] Will Wilkinson, in discussing Paul Krugman’s recent book, writes: In Krugman’s view, if the working class contains many members without the franchise, it is [...]

By: conchis

conchis — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:42:55 +0000

I (perhaps wrongly) took part of Krugman’s point to be that policy A would increase political inequality at the global level: people who previously could vote now can’t.* To the extent that such political inequality is something that than an egalitarian might care about, it’s conceivable that they could think that policy A is worse than policy B, all things considered.

Now, I don’t personally buy this: individual choices to migrate seem to indicate pretty clearly which way they see the tradeoff between income and political rights; and I see little reason to second-guess them. But it seems possible at least, for an egalitarian to think this way.

*Yes, this depends on where the immigrants come from, but I think it’s defensible as an empirical generalisation.

By: conchis

conchis — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:42:00 +0000

*Yes, this depends on where the immigrants come from, but I think it’s defensible as an empirical generalisation.

By: conchis

conchis — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:42:00 +0000

*Yes, this depends on where the immigrants come from, but I think it’s defensible as an empirical generalisation.

By: The libertarians' friend

The libertarians' friend — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:20:17 +0000

Perhaps Cato would care to join up with the immigration supporter quoted at my name’s link. I’m sure they have much in common.

(Note that her comments were warmly received and that “economists” frequently forget to include all the costs of immigration, including giving people like her more power.)

By: The libertarians' friend

The libertarians' friend — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:20:00 +0000

Perhaps Cato would care to join up with the immigration supporter quoted at my name’s link. I’m sure they have much in common.

(Note that her comments were warmly received and that “economists” frequently forget to include all the costs of immigration, including giving people like her more power.)

By: The libertarians' friend

The libertarians' friend — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:20:00 +0000

Perhaps Cato would care to join up with the immigration supporter quoted at my name’s link. I’m sure they have much in common.

(Note that her comments were warmly received and that “economists” frequently forget to include all the costs of immigration, including giving people like her more power.)

By: Dain

Dain — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:30:51 +0000

Well, uh, to the extent that authoritarian elitists and police-backed technocratic paternalists essentially don’t trust people to run their own damn lives, I’d say Goldberg’s thesis isn’t INHERENTLY frivoulous.

The problem with Goldberg is that he has no credibility writing a book like that, supporter of Bush – a right wing social engineer – that he is.