Garett Jones — Immigration, national IQ, & less democracy

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

January 24, 2023

Duration

1h 14m

Channel

Dwarkesh Podcast

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Garett Jones is an economist at George Mason University and he is the author of The Cultural Transplant, Hive Mind, and 10% Less Democracy. This episode was fun and interesting throughout! He explains:

• How migrants bring their values to their new countries,
• Why national IQ matters,
• How the Chinese people are an unstoppable global force for free markets,
• Why we should have less democracy

𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒

• Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/garett-jones
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• Follow Garett on Twitter: https://twitter.com/garettjones
• Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp

𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 00:00:00) - Intro 00:01:08) - Migrants Change Countries with Culture or Votes? 00:09:15 - Impact of Immigrants on Markets & Corruption 00:12:02 - 50% Open Borders? 00:16:54 - Chinese are Unstoppable Capitalists 00:21:39 - Innovation & Immigrants 00:24:53 - Open Borders for Migrants Equivalent to Americans? 00:28:54 - Let's Ignore Side Effects? 00:30:25 - Are Poor Countries Stuck? 00:32:26 - How Can Effective Altruists Increase National IQ 00:39:13 - Clone a million John von Neumann? 00:44:39 - Genetic Selection for IQ 00:47:02 - Democracy, Fed, FDA, & Presidential Power 00:49:42 - EU is a force for good? 00:55:12 - Why is America More Libertarian Than Median Voter? 00:56:19 - Is Ethnic Conflict a Short Run Problem? 00:59:38 - Bond Holder Democracy 01:04:57 - Mormonism 01:08:52 - Garett Jones's Immigration System 01:10:12 - Interviewing SBF

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Garett Jones

  guest

• Dwarkesh Patel

  host

• Narrator

  other

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Dwarkesh Podcast, featuring Garett Jones and Dwarkesh Patel, Garett Jones — Immigration, national IQ, & less democracy explores garrett Jones links migration, IQ, and democracy’s long-run tradeoffs Economist Garrett Jones discusses how national IQ, culture, and migration shape institutions, productivity, and innovation over decades rather than just in the short run.

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