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. 

Dr. Salsman ist einer der führenden Verfechter der moralischen Verteidigung des Kapitalismus in unserem Land und ein engagierter Gelehrter von Rand und Objektivismus. Er begann als Gastgeber von Moral & Märkte für Absolventen seiner Kurse an der Duke University zu veranstalten, die weiterhin anregende Gespräche über aktuelle Themen führen wollten, die den Schnittpunkt zwischen Ethik, Politik, Wirtschaft und Märkten erkunden. Die Sitzungen beginnen mit einer Ansprache von Dr. Salsman, gefolgt von Fragen und Antworten, Diskussionen und Debatten.

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