Hello and welcome to the Open Borders edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance

News of the Week, although this week we are zooming back. We are not going to bother ourselves with the

pickayoon details of the news of the week. We have bigger fish to fry. I am Felix Simon of Axios. I'm joined by Emily Peck of Huffpost.

Hello. I'm joined by Anna Shimanski of Breaking Views.

Hello.

I am in Washington, D.C. this week, and we are joined by Brian Kaplan of George Mason University.

How's it going?

Who is a... I don't know, can I just call you a professional contrarian?

Sure, I love it.

It's, you have a new book out.

We're going to talk about three of your books in this episode.

It's going to be a monster episode, but the new book and the, if I dare say so, by far the easiest to read,

it was certainly the easiest on the eyes to read is called.

Open Borders, the Science and Ethics of Immigration.

You have made an argument in comic book form that the United States in particular

and countries in general should just open their borders.

We are going to talk about that and whether it's a good idea, but you didn't just write that book,

you wrote two other books which we're going to talk about, what are those?

Selfish reasons to have more kids, why being a great parent is less work and more fun than you think,

and also the case against education, why the education system is a waste of time and money.

So if you think that we should have some control over who comes into our country,

if you think that having universities is a good thing, if you think that maybe you don't want to have lots of kids, this is

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