Lant Pritchett
Person on 3 sites
Development economist; argues that letting people move to rich countries does more for the poor than aid, and wrote Let Their People Come.
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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14 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Hostility to migration is the last gasp of a dying system rather than the shape of the future. (opens korrents.com)
“The negativity around migration is the last breath of a moribund system and the transition to a more realistic approach.”
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Without immigrants Spain’s labour force falls from 22.6 to 15.7 million by 2050, far too few to run its economy. (opens korrents.com)
“In the absence of immigrants, between 2020 and 2050 Spain’s labor force (its active population) will drop from 22.6 to 15.7 million people. You’re not going to fill all the jobs needed in a modern and sophisticated…”
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Demography is about to turn the rich world’s problem from finding a job for every person into finding a person for every job. (opens korrents.com)
“But once the demographics reverse, the challenge will be to find a person for every job. In the coming years, the impact of demographic changes is going to lead to chronic labor shortages.”
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Hostility to migration is the last gasp of a dying system rather than the shape of the future. (opens korrents.com)
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2 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Growth and the Case Against Randomista Development (opens rcmnd.app)
“John Halstead and Hauke Hillebrandt have an interesting new paper posted on the Effective Altruism Forum. To be fair, it draws a fair bit on some of my research and so I am likely biased. But it does raise and argue…”
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The History of England (opens rcmnd.app)
“And the volume is full of such wonderful, old fashioned, sentences.”
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Growth and the Case Against Randomista Development (opens rcmnd.app)