bryan_caplan

A good finance textbook will tell you that "money" is not binary. Rather there is a continuum of "moneyness" that every asset has. Gold used to be near the extreme money end of the continuum, but has become much less so over time.

I don't know why Palestinian right of return would be the "most important" issue. But my answer is: If there's a low chance of it leading to civil war, yes. If there's a high chance of it leading to civil war, no. As I repeatedly say in Open Borders, there's a strong moral presumption in favor of free migration, not an absolute moral presumption.

Pretty good. I'm thinking of doing another non-fiction graphic novel on housing deregulation, titled Build, Baby, Build: A YIMBY Manifesto. I also have dozens of fictional graphic novels plotted in my head. If I went that route, I'd probably start with my dystopian story Control Group, about a psychiatric despotism inspired by BF Skinner's Walden 2.

Quadrupling US population overnight would indeed have highly unpredictable effects and lead to low assimilation (or reverse assimilation). Quadrupling population over the course of a century, on the other hand, is no big deal. The US has done much more several times before.

Lots. I didn't know the National Academy of Sciences estimates for net fiscal effects of immigration, so all that data work was new to me.

I came up with my method for putting a lower bound of the causal effect of Third World environment on IQ while writing the book.

My critique of the ancestry/Deep Roots literature happened while writing the book, with the help of Nathaniel Bechhofer.