"A provocative new analysis of immigration's long-term effects on a nation's economy and culture. Over the last two decades, as economists have uncovered the best predictors of national prosperity around the world, one of their repeated findings has been that cultural factors are robu...

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Main Author:	Jones, Garett (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, California : Stanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:	Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects. Culture > Economic aspects. Immigrants > Cultural assimilation. Immigrants > Intégration. Culture > Economic aspects Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects Immigrants > Cultural assimilation
Online Access:	DE-862 DE-863
Summary:	"A provocative new analysis of immigration's long-term effects on a nation's economy and culture. Over the last two decades, as economists have uncovered the best predictors of national prosperity around the world, one of their repeated findings has been that cultural factors are robust predictors of economic performance. In The Culture Transplant, Garett Jones documents the cultural foundations of cross-country income differences, and draws on recent research showing that immigrants bring economically important cultural attitudes that persist for decades, even centuries, in their new national homes. And since a nation's citizens shape a nation's culture, its government, and its behavioral norms, that means migration will shape the rules of the game for a nation's economy. So it is, Jones demonstrates, that the cultural traits migrants bring to their new homes have enduring effects upon a nation's economic potential and proximate causes of both poverty and future prosperity. Built upon mainstream, well-reviewed academic research that hasn't pierced the public consciousness, The Culture Transplant will appeal to a broad range of readers at the intersection of cultural anthropology and economics. The book offers a compelling refutation of an unspoken consensus that a nation's economic and political institutions are overwhelmingly exogenous to migration, that migration policy can be discussed without considering whether migration will, over a few generations, have substantial effects on the economic and political institutions of a nation"--
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xi, 213 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781503633643 1503633640