Tag: labor economics
The less work required, the happier we’ll be
March 8, 2017 | Post
Jobs are the means, not the ends in themselves.
Cutting legal immigration won’t help low-skilled American workers
February 28, 2017 | Post
Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA) recently introduced the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act. If it were to become law, RAISE would cut legal immigration by 50 percent over the next ten years by reducing green cards for family members of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, slashing refugees, and […]
How to get millions of people working for you
January 8, 2017 | Post
“The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.” — Adam Smith
Nativists created our immigration problems—they can’t fix them
November 25, 2016 | Post
Not only have their ideas failed on their terms, they have backfired, creating more lawlessness than before.
One economist’s final words before being devoured by zombies
October 31, 2016 | Post
The final moments of an economist amidst a horde of zombies.
Senator Tom Cotton and Rep. Mike Pompeo spread four myths about immigration
October 14, 2016 | Post
If we believe in liberty for migrants as well as Americans, we must grant them liberty peacefully to travel the world unmolested and to settle wherever they find homes to rent and enterprises to work for.