Written by Noah Carl.
My recent article ‘Is "immigration" good for the economy?’ generated a fair amount of critical commentary. This is good – we like debate here at Aporia. In the present article, I’d like to address some of that critical commentary.
A number of my detractors, who presumably didn’t bother to read the article, assumed I must have argued that immigration is bad for the economy. This is not what I argued at all. Rather, I said that the effect varies from “substantially positive” to “substantially negative” (rather than always being “substantially positive”, as immigration proponents would have us believe) and hence that it’s meaningless to say immigration per se is good for the economy.