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. 

サルスマン博士は、わが国に残された資本主義の道徳的擁護の主要な推進者の一人であり、ランドと客観主義の熱心な研究者である。を主催するようになった。 モラルとマーケット このセッションは、倫理、政治、経済、市場との接点を探る現代のトピックについて、魅力的な会話を続けたいというデューク大学でのサルスマン博士のクラスの卒業生を対象に開催されました。セッションは、Salsman博士の挨拶から始まり、質疑応答、議論、討論が行われます。

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