Open Borders
By Bryan Caplan
- Release Date: 2019-10-29
- Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
Description
An Economist “Our Books of the Year” Selection
Economist Bryan Caplan makes a bold case for unrestricted immigration in this fact-filled graphic nonfiction.
American policy-makers have long been locked in a heated battle over whether, how many, and what kind of immigrants to allow to live and work in the country. Those in favor of welcoming more immigrants often cite humanitarian reasons, while those in favor of more restrictive laws argue the need to protect native citizens.
But economist Bryan Caplan adds a new, compelling perspective to the immigration debate: He argues that opening all borders could eliminate absolute poverty worldwide and usher in a booming worldwide economy—greatly benefiting humanity.
With a clear and conversational tone, exhaustive research, and vibrant illustrations by Zach Weinersmith, Open Borders makes the case for unrestricted immigration easy to follow and hard to deny.
Reviews
Thoughtful and charitable
5By Matthew Jeremiah BarnettThis book is thoughtfully argued, persuasive, and not afraid to grapple with the best arguments against its thesis. A model for non-fiction authors. Like most everything from Bryan Caplan, I highly recommend.Good information however focuses to much on being persuasive
4By angryAtSnapchatThis book is great and I recommend it to anyone with interested in the case for open borders. As someone who’s pretty well traversed in this topic I was really surprised to learn things I hadn’t already know. However there is one big flaw and that is Caplan focuses a little too much on being persuasive that I would have preferred he just presented more facts, and statistics. Additionally a lot of Caplan's graphs make no sense and are hard to read/understand. I do believe however the graphs are acknowledged in the back of the book. Overall, it was a very interesting read and I’d recommend the book to anyone know or just interested in the topic.