http://www.borderlessworld.net/ en Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:36:00 GMT Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:36:00 GMT info@borderlessworld.net info@borderlessworld.net http://www.borderlessworld.net/userimages/user3003_1162218115.gif http://www.borderlessworld.net/ http://www.borderlessworld.net/if-i-were-rand-paul/ Would I have voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Yes! In general, the government should protect the rights of the individual as its foremost concern, but not its... http://www.borderlessworld.net/if-i-were-rand-paul/#comments http://www.borderlessworld.net/if-i-were-rand-paul/ Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:36:00 GMT http://www.borderlessworld.net/why-are-so-few-immigrants-legal/ Great column by Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe. Excerpt (my emphasis added): No state seeks to drive out hard-working newcomers from New Mexico or Indiana; why should hard-working newcomers... http://www.borderlessworld.net/why-are-so-few-immigrants-legal/#comments http://www.borderlessworld.net/why-are-so-few-immigrants-legal/ Sat, 15 May 2010 14:55:00 GMT http://www.borderlessworld.net/charter-city-podcast/ If the idea of Charter Cities as a tool to help the world's poorest is an idea you are not familiar with, I suggest checking out this podcast with the... http://www.borderlessworld.net/charter-city-podcast/#comments http://www.borderlessworld.net/charter-city-podcast/ Sat, 15 May 2010 00:55:00 GMT http://www.borderlessworld.net/immigrants-make-us-safer/ Here are two must-read articles on immigration and crime: #1. How Immigration Crackdowns Backfire Excerpt: has an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants. But contrary to myth, they have not brought an... http://www.borderlessworld.net/immigrants-make-us-safer/#comments http://www.borderlessworld.net/immigrants-make-us-safer/ Thu, 06 May 2010 14:59:00 GMT http://www.borderlessworld.net/international-economics-carnival-march-13-2010/ http://www.borderlessworld.net/international-economics-carnival-march-13-2010/#comments http://www.borderlessworld.net/international-economics-carnival-march-13-2010/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:55:00 GMT http://www.borderlessworld.net/immigrants-are-good-even-for-the-poor/ Mark Krikorian is wrong on immigration again. In response to a proposed wage subsidy (my highlighting added): Unfortunately, he doesn't even mention the one step that would cost nothing and... http://www.borderlessworld.net/immigrants-are-good-even-for-the-poor/#comments http://www.borderlessworld.net/immigrants-are-good-even-for-the-poor/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:22:00 GMT http://www.borderlessworld.net/the-problem-of-predicting-government-expenditures/ From the Denver Post: Remember that Congress estimated Medicare's cost at $12 billion for 1990 (adjusted for inflation) when the program kicked off in 1965. Medicare cost $107 billion in... http://www.borderlessworld.net/the-problem-of-predicting-government-expenditures/#comments http://www.borderlessworld.net/the-problem-of-predicting-government-expenditures/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:57:00 GMT http://www.borderlessworld.net/immigration-is-more-compassionate-than-welfare/ Liberal politicians enjoy painting those who do not support a large welfare state as uncompassionate and/or racist. In some (maybe many) instances, they are not far from the truth. However... http://www.borderlessworld.net/immigration-is-more-compassionate-than-welfare/#comments http://www.borderlessworld.net/immigration-is-more-compassionate-than-welfare/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:15:00 GMT http://www.borderlessworld.net/the-morality-of-immigration-restrictions/ More genius from Matt Yglesias on immigration policy (my emphasis added): If you're thinking about ways to boost the prospects of poor Americans, doing it by punishing even poorer Mexicans... http://www.borderlessworld.net/the-morality-of-immigration-restrictions/#comments http://www.borderlessworld.net/the-morality-of-immigration-restrictions/ Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:38:00 GMT http://www.borderlessworld.net/international-economics-carnival-march-6-2010/ http://www.borderlessworld.net/international-economics-carnival-march-6-2010/#comments http://www.borderlessworld.net/international-economics-carnival-march-6-2010/ Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:26:00 GMT http://www.borderlessworld.net/deporting-illegal-immigrants-is-both-wrong-and-counterproductive/ It is often pointed out that illegal immigrants are less likely than U.S. natives to commit crimes. Conservatives like to respond that 100% of illegal immigrants are criminals, because they... http://www.borderlessworld.net/deporting-illegal-immigrants-is-both-wrong-and-counterproductive/#comments http://www.borderlessworld.net/deporting-illegal-immigrants-is-both-wrong-and-counterproductive/ Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:23:00 GMT http://www.borderlessworld.net/africa-to-meet-millenium-development-goal/ Maxim Pinkovskiy and Xavier Sala-i-Martin's new paper has an exciting abstract: The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala-i-Martin (2009... http://www.borderlessworld.net/africa-to-meet-millenium-development-goal/#comments http://www.borderlessworld.net/africa-to-meet-millenium-development-goal/ Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:32:00 GMT http://www.borderlessworld.net/gdp-is-not-the-same-as-wellbeing/ Over at EconLib, David Henderson takes on those who idolize GDP over actual welfare: When economics professors teach the basics of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), we usually caution our students... http://www.borderlessworld.net/gdp-is-not-the-same-as-wellbeing/#comments http://www.borderlessworld.net/gdp-is-not-the-same-as-wellbeing/ Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:48:00 GMT http://www.borderlessworld.net/does-the-government-provide-public-goods/ While the main issues of this blog are international trade and immigration, the topic of how government should be formed is fair game. In this post, we are going to... http://www.borderlessworld.net/does-the-government-provide-public-goods/#comments http://www.borderlessworld.net/does-the-government-provide-public-goods/ Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:05:00 GMT http://www.borderlessworld.net/call-for-blog-carnival-submissions-3510/ If you have a blog post on any International Economics topic, please submit it to my Blog Carnival! Thanks! Follow me on Twitter: @AGoldenDoor http://www.borderlessworld.net/call-for-blog-carnival-submissions-3510/#comments http://www.borderlessworld.net/call-for-blog-carnival-submissions-3510/ Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:13:00 GMT