Morals & Markets with Dr. Richard Salsman: "A Capitalist Approach to Immigration and Borders"

Join Atlas Society Senior Scholar Richard Salsman, Ph.D., Wednesday, November 29 @ 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET for our quarterly Morals & Markets webinar. This time Dr. Salsman will discuss the current failures with U.S. immigration policy, the crisis at the border, and what a capitalist approach can offer to correct things.

"A free society welcomes manageable flows of goods, capital, and people over its borders, whether incoming or outgoing. A state is defined as the institution with a monopoly on the legitimate use of retaliatory force within a specific territory – and the last feature requires fixed and protected borders. An indispensable job of a legitimate government includes managing the borders, setting liberal terms, processing the flows, and interdicting dangers (hostile actors, transmissible diseases). America’s most capitalist era (1865-1915) coincided with the “Ellis Island model” and we need that again, instead of the false choice of “open borders” (with no processing) or “closed borders” (with despotic-type walls)." - Dr. Richard Salsman

Those interested in attending should register HERE. Can’t join us Live? Can’t join us live? Check out the Morals & Markets podcast.

Suggested Readings/Sources:

• Kelley, David. “Open Society, Open Borders.” (Barron’s, 1985.05.11). PDF
• Powell, Edward. “Objectivist Views on Immigration.” (Objective Dissent, 2017.01.24). 
• Griswold, Daniel. “The Benefits of Immigration: Addressing Key Myths” (Mercatus Center, 2018.05.23).
• Binswanger, Harry. “Anti-Immigration Rhetoric Reveals Education's Failure” (Forbes, 2013.02.03)
• Rand, Ayn. “On Immigration (1973)” (ARI, 2017.02.07).  
• Dalmia, Shika. “Ayn Rand Was an Illegal Immigrant, per Today’s Republicans” (Reason, 2012.02.14)
• Kukathas, Chandran. “The Case for Open Immigration” (Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics, 2005).
• Freedman, Aaron. “Open Borders Made America Great” (The New Republic, 2019.08.09).
• Williamson, Chilton. “The Ideology of Unrestricted Immigration” (Modern Age, 2016.07.05).
• Simon, Julian. The Economic Consequences of Immigration into the U.S. (U-Michigan Press, 1998).
• Ellis Island’s History. 

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