Tyler Cowen on Big Business, Socialism, Free Speech, and Stagnant Productivity Growth – #21
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Can You Be a New Yorker and Not Be an American?
When things are not going well, people blame either foreign country or for countries or immigrants. So the causation, as I understood you were making the case, was that this economic dissatisfaction drove the anti-immigrant sentiments and also drove our opposition to China. We had a guy on recently, Mark Moffatt, who said, made a similar argument. He says when things are plentiful, people are quite willing to accept newcomers into their midst. But when scarcity arises that you tend to find people getting more xenophobic.
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