Coyote ugly: the deadweight cost of rent seeking for immigration policy

Powell, Benjamin

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“…In addition, some neoliberals feared that immigration restrictions to protect specific groups or industries would constitute a form of “rent seeking,” increasing wealth by political manipulation of regulations, rather than by increasing productivity. But for some American neoliberals, the immigrants are the rent seekers, resulting in welfare or other costs to the nation (e.g., see Powell, 2012). For the libertarians of the Mises Institute, immigration restriction was simply a matter of property rights (e.g., Rockwell, 2015).…”

Section: Deploying the Bell Curvementioning

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Neoliberalism and IQ: Naturalizing economic and racial inequality

Winston

2018

Theory & Psychology

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How did IQ become an important means of naturalizing economic and racial inequality and supporting neoliberal visions of a fully privatized, free market society? I show how post-WWII neoliberals and libertarians could employ ideas of "innate intelligence" to promote the reduction of government funding of social programs. For extreme libertarian economist Murray Rothbard, inequality among individuals and ethnicities was self-evident from human history and the a priori examination of the "natural order," but IQ data could also be employed in the fight against "egalitarianism." Any attempt to interfere in this "natural order," such as civil rights legislation, was viewed as inherently evil. For libertarian Charles Murray and more mainstream neoliberals such as Milton Friedman, empirical research on intelligence was an effective means of influencing public perception and policy on welfare, affirmative action, and immigration. I discuss recent work on "national intelligence" in relation to neoliberal projects and enduring fears regarding reproduction and family.

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Section: Deploying the Bell Curvementioning

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Neoliberalism and IQ: Naturalizing economic and racial inequality

Winston

2018

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“…Despite the small net gain,Powell (2012) shows that with substantial transfers the rent-seeking costs to policy changes could be much larger than the standard Harberger triangles.3 A separate and distinct question, on which there is a larger amount of research, is what the fiscal impact is of immigration given current tax and spending policies. On this point there is less consensus than on the impact of immigrants on the employment opportunities and wages of natives.…”

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Does immigration impact institutions?

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The economics literature generally finds a positive, but small, gain in income to native-born populations from immigrants and potentially large gains in world incomes. But immigrants can also impact a recipient nation's institutions. A growing empirical literature supports the importance of strong private property rights, a rule of law, and an environment of economic freedom for promoting long-run prosperity. But little is known about how immigration impacts these institutions. This paper empirically examines how immigration impacts a nation's policies and institutions. We find no evidence of negative and some evidence of positive impacts in institutional quality as a result of immigration.

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“…Professor Benjamin Powell of Texas Tech University estimated the economic costs of a total immigration moratorium at $229 billion annually. 65 This section includes two cost projections. The first conservatively estimates the economic costs of a moratorium to be only $35 billion annually, which is the number used by Harvard economist George Borjas.…”

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Terrorism and Immigration: A Risk Analysis

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Coyote ugly: the deadweight cost of rent seeking for immigration policy

Abstract: Immigration, Rent seeking, Deadweight loss, Immigration surplus, H0, J08, J18, J21, J61, K31,

Cited by 8 publications

References 32 publications

Neoliberalism and IQ: Naturalizing economic and racial inequality

Neoliberalism and IQ: Naturalizing economic and racial inequality

Does immigration impact institutions?

Terrorism and Immigration: A Risk Analysis

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