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Sun Sep 18 16:39:35 +0000 2022

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

But Sweden has a higher employment-population ratio than the USA — PolitiTweet.org

Rob Henderson @robkhenderson

Lee Kuan Yew on Singapore, productivity, and the welfare state. https://t.co/BLF6rMlZFb

Posted Sept. 18, 2022 Hibernated

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Some people can get rich by cartelizing a sector of the economy (tariffs on imported softwood lumber, onerous licensing for pilots, ban manufactured housing from certain neighborhoods) but it certainly doesn't follow that a society can get rich by cartelizing everything. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 18, 2022 Hibernated

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This is where 90% of immigration economics conversations run off the rails. In a non-migration context it's uncontroversial to observe that limiting entry into a field does help incumbents in that field, but if you restrict entry into every field you get poorer not richer. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 18, 2022 Hibernated

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