The Culture Transplant How Migrants Make the Economies They Move to a Lot Like the Ones They Left.

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 pow...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jones, Garett
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ashland : Stanford University Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Culture > Economic aspects.
Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Immigrants > Cultural assimilation.
Immigrants > Intégration.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Knowledge Capital.
Culture > Economic aspects
Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects
Immigrants > Cultural assimilation
Culture.
Development.
Diaspora.
Diversity.
Economics.
Management.
Migration.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface: The Best Immigration Policy
  • Introduction: How Economists Learned the Power of Culture
  • 1. The Assimilation Myth
  • 2. Prosperity Migrates
  • 3. Places or Peoples?
  • 4. The Migration of Good Government
  • 5. Our Diversity Is Our
  • 6. The I-7
  • 7. The Chinese Diaspora: Building the Capitalist Road
  • 8. The Deep Roots across the Fifty United States
  • Je ne sais quoi
  • Conclusion: The Goose and the Golden Eggs
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix: Your Nation's SAT Score
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Back Cover

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