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 Piquayune details of the news of the week.

We have bigger fish to fry.

I am Felix Salmon of Axios.

I'm joined by Emily Peck of Huffpost.

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I am joined by Anna Schamansky of Breaking Views.

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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, 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 Brian's attempt to change your mind on these things.

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