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Thinking about "Social Justice" Like an Economist | Bryan Caplan & Richard Hanania

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Is There a Cost in Increasing Crime Rates?

You're increasing the global i c. Youre increasing the globa a typic i c by yet bringing people to first world countries. This is a cost, is it not? Absolutely? And your language is exactly correct, relative to natives. In the us, it very much looks like immigrants have lower crime rates than natives. In europe, it looks like they got higher crime rate than natives. There's a pretty simple story, which is that americans, on average, of really high crime rates. Europeans have really low crime rates, and imigrants are better than us, but worse than them. But when you look at how low severe european crime rates are,

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