Bryan Caplan on Immigration

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🗓️ 4 October 2010

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Bryan Caplan of George Mason University and EconLog blogger talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about immigration. Caplan takes on the common arguments against open borders and argues that they are either exaggerated or can be overcome while still allowing more immigration than is currently allowed in the United States.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:12.5	I'm your host Russ Roberts of George Mason University and Stanford University's Hoover
0:17.3	Institution.
0:18.7	Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, find other episodes, comment on this podcast,
0:25.8	and find links to other information related to today's conversation.
0:29.9	Our email address is mailadicontalk.org, we'd love to hear from you.
0:38.5	Today is September 27, 2010, and my guest is Brian Kaplan, Professor of Economics at
0:44.2	George Mason University.
0:45.5	He blogs at econlogge, which like econtalk, is part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:51.4	Brian, welcome back to econtalk.
0:53.5	Thanks so much for having me again Russ.
0:55.1	Our topic today is immigration, which is a very lively topic, and I hope Brian and I
0:58.8	don't have a lively discussion.
1:00.6	I just want to say in general, as with all guests, not everything that Brian says that
1:06.5	I leave unchallenged is true, and not everything that Brian says that I leave unchallenged, do
1:12.3	I agree with?
1:13.3	So I just want to have a lot of respect for you out there in the listening audience,
1:18.5	and when guests say things that I don't agree with or that I think are wrong, sometimes
1:21.9	I have to let them go because we only have about an hour, and I rely on your intelligence
1:26.8	and natural inbuilt skepticism, not to believe everything you hear.
1:31.0	So that will apply today, I'm sure, in many ways, right Brian?
1:34.6	It could, but it's just not relevant.
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