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The Book Club: Peter Turchin

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The Importance of Institutions in Immigration

"The new left has changed its ideology in a very substantial way," he says. "There's no exception burning, it's the last thing that's ever done." The old left was more familiar with this idea of bringing workers from Ireland to control English workers, according to Max Beerbohm. He adds: "If you don't have institutions, if you allow the market fundamentalism to rule, so what?"

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