Culture TransplantGarett Jones
Culture Transplant
by Garett Jones · first published 2022
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For citation, I recommend a book by Garret Jones, “The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move To a Lot Like the Ones They Left” https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Transplant-Migrants-Make-Econ...
Please go read “The Culture Transplant.” https://www.rorotoko.com/11/20230913-jones-garett-on-book-cu...
on “US Places Arctic Airborne Troops on Standby as Greenland Dispute Escalates” ↗It matters because the nature of a country reflects the culture of its population, and immigrants bring along the culture of the places they are from: https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Transplant-Migrants-Make-Econ.... The large influx of south Asians to the UK will make the UK different. And if you think the UK is a better place than India, those changes will probably not be great ones from…
on “Americans are feeling much better about the economy thanks to slowing inflation” ↗…the US, and gave everyone US citizenship, they wouldn’t suddenly become “American.” Culture matters, and a population’s culture is extremely durable: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=35594 (“In The Culture Transplant, Garett Jones documents the cultural foundations of cross-country income differences, showing that immigrants import cultural attitudes from their homelands—toward saving, toward trust, and toward the…
…my dad did not sponsor a fraction of the family members he could have. Moreover, foreign mindsets are durable over generations: https://www.sup.org/books/economics-and-finance/culture-tran... ("In The Culture Transplant, Garett Jones documents the cultural foundations of cross-country income differences, showing that immigrants import cultural attitudes from their homelands—toward saving, toward trust, and toward the…
on “Data on How America Sold Out Its Computer Science Graduates” ↗“In The Culture Transplant, Garett Jones documents the cultural foundations of cross-country income differences, showing that immigrants import cultural attitudes from their homelands—toward saving, toward trust, and toward the…
on “CBA hiring Indian ICT workers after firing Australians” ↗…illegal-alien labor. That will reduce the incentive of people to immigrate illegally, and reduce the need for future deportations. [1] https://www.sup.org/books/economics-and-finance/culture-tran... ("In The Culture Transplant, Garett Jones documents the cultural foundations of cross-country income differences, showing that immigrants import cultural attitudes from their homelands—toward saving, toward trust, and toward the…
on “ICE Took Half Their Work Force. What Do They Do Now?” ↗…real, that it shapes the society, and that immigrants bring foreign culture with them in ways that change the destination society. https://www.sup.org/books/economics-and-finance/culture-tran... ("In The Culture Transplant, Garett Jones documents the cultural foundations of cross-country income differences, showing that immigrants import cultural attitudes from their homelands—toward saving, toward trust, and toward the…
…yours? If you are British American, then yes. Otherwise, no. > If you are born here, what does it matter? Empirically, yes it does! https://www.rorotoko.com/11/20230913-jones-garett-on-book-cu... (“The Culture Transplant debunks the view that immigrants fully assimilate in a generation or two. This is something my fellow economists know—we have vast empirical literatures showing that, for instance, you can partly predict…
on “Thomas Piketty: 'The reality is the US is losing control of the world'” ↗The Culture Transplant by Garett Jones
on “Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore” ↗