Ep. 1062: Justin Gest Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Justin Gest, an associate professor of Policy and Government at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government. He is the author of six books, primarily on the politics of immigration and demographic change, all from Oxford University Press or Cambridge University Press. His research has been published in journals including the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Comparative Political Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Global Governance, Global Policy, International Migration Review, Migration Studies, Polity, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The topic is his book Majority Minority.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Immigration
Democracy and dramatic demographic change
Controversy
Why is there no rational immigration policy for America?
How does Singapore compare to a big city in America?
Demographic balance and demographic distribution

Jump in!

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0:00.0	This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.3	My guest today is Justin Guest, and we talk demographics. We talk immigration. We talk the pros. We talk the cons. We talk about the controversy. It doesn't make a difference what country you are in. Immigration is sacrosanct. Immigration is the issue.
0:57.6	Is there too little?
0:59.1	Is there too much?
1:00.6	Is one group favored over another?
1:03.2	How does the politics break down?
1:06.6	Nobody.
1:07.8	Nobody wants to have an honest conversation about immigration, especially in my country,
1:15.6	America.
1:16.8	Justin does a really good job of looking at various countries around the world and how they
1:22.5	have dealt with demographic changes, how they've dealt with a need to change immigration. Or perhaps
1:31.2	some might argue that was a mistake. Some people might call aspects of immigration a prejudice
1:39.3	or racist. Others might say, hold on. We just can't let everyone into a country. Imagine,
1:47.7	for example, if 50 million people wanted to immigrate to Switzerland tomorrow, to Singapore
1:54.4	tomorrow. There are constraints. There are real-world constraints to immigration. There are also real constraints. Demigration.
2:03.9	There are also real world debates.
2:06.3	Today, you get one of those.
2:20.9	Without any further delay, let's jump right into my conversation today with Justin Guest and talk a little bit about his topic, demographics, and specifically his new book, Majority, Minority.
2:24.0	I hope you enjoy this episode with Justin Guest. I usually don't do talking points.
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