The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move to a Lot Like the Ones They Left Jones Garett
A provocative new analysis of immigration's long-term effects on a nation's economy and culture.Over the last two decades, as economists began using big datasets and modern computing power to reveal…
Specifikacia The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move to a Lot Like the Ones They Left Jones Garett
A provocative new analysis of immigration's long-term effects on a nation's economy and culture.Over the last two decades, as economists began using big datasets and modern computing power to reveal the sources of national prosperity, their statistical results kept pointing toward the power of culture to drive the wealth of nations. 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 role of government--that persist for decades, and likely for centuries, in their new national homes. Full assimilation in a generation or two, Jones reports, is a myth. And the cultural traits migrants bring to their new homes have enduring effects upon a nation's economic potential.Built upon