http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/09/18/open-border-gains/ My opinions only. I do not represent any organization in this publication. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:55:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/09/18/open-border-gains/#comment-78733 Mike Linksvayer » Beneficial brain drain enhanced by weak intellectual protectionism Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:39:48 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/09/18/open-border-gains/#comment-78733 [...] Modern research on “brain drain” indicates it is mostly beneficial, which comports with my intuition, repeated here: Over the long term I’d bet brains are not zero sum — a brain drain really just means increased returns to education. Mobility means more people in the developing world will pursue higher education. Add to that increased flow of knowledge and capital to the developing world from migrants and concern over “brain drain” sounds very much like yet another disingenuous excuse for keeping the current system of inter-jurisdiction apartheid in place. [...] [...] Modern research on “brain drain” indicates it is mostly beneficial, which comports with my intuition, repeated here: Over the long term I’d bet brains are not zero sum — a brain drain really just means increased returns to education. Mobility means more people in the developing world will pursue higher education. Add to that increased flow of knowledge and capital to the developing world from migrants and concern over “brain drain” sounds very much like yet another disingenuous excuse for keeping the current system of inter-jurisdiction apartheid in place. [...]

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