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- Title: Our Muddled Masses: America's Immigration Policy Reflects a Paradox, Says Economist Reuven Brenner: Hospitality and Xenophobia, Side by Side
- Author : Reuven Brenner
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 77 KB
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It would appear that America needs a miracle to escape the "new normal" of low growth. We know of no means to induce miracles, but there is a next best thing. Perhaps it is not accidental that the Holy Land was called the land of milk and honey rather than gold and oil. You need skilled farmers to manage the capital of bees and herds properly, to assure living from their returns only while not using up the capital. Behind the seeming miracles of economic history, we uncover a common thread: the sudden arrival of skilled immigrants. "Short of admitting a few million skilled, entrepreneurial immigrants," David P. Goldman and I wrote in an earlier essay ("The Needle's Eye," December 2009), America must increase savings, investment, and exports to climb out of its economic slump. Innovation can multiply the effect of savings and investment, however. To get innovation, one first needs innovators. That is one reason that the immigration issue should be at the top of the national agenda: The right immigration policy will contribute mightily to America's prospects for recovery. There is also this: American immigration policy threatens to become an economic as well as a humanitarian catastrophe.