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Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. My guest today is Garrett Jones.

Garrett is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University. His interests

include macroeconomics, the micro foundations of economic growth, IQ, the power of culture, and public

choice economics. The books we focus on in this episode are 10% less democracy, why you should

trust elites a little bit more and the public a little less.

And the culture transplant, how migrants make the economies they move to a lot like the ones they left.

We talk about the intellectual environment of George Mason University, and we briefly digress into a

conversation about UAPs. Then we get back to the meat of the discussion.

We talk about the benefits and drawbacks of democracy. We discuss the possibility of so-called

benign dictatorships. We talk about the crisis of expertise, the electoral college, and then we

move on to the topic of immigration. We talk about whether and in what ways immigrants assimilate.

We talk about the idea of the melting pot. We discuss high trust versus low trust cultures,

and much more. I find Garrett to be a provocative thinker in the good sense of that word,

though I don't totally share his point of view on cultural assimilation. In any event, I hope that you enjoy this conversation

as much as I did. So without further ado, Garrett Jones. Okay, Garrett Jones. Thank you so much

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