Morals & Markets with Dr. Richard Salsman: "A Capitalist Approach to Immigration and Borders"

Join Atlas Society Senior Scholar Richard Salsman, Ph.D., Wednesday, November 29 @ 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET for our quarterly Morals & Markets webinar. This time Dr. Salsman will discuss the current failures with U.S. immigration policy, the crisis at the border, and what a capitalist approach can offer to correct things.

"A free society welcomes manageable flows of goods, capital, and people over its borders, whether incoming or outgoing. A state is defined as the institution with a monopoly on the legitimate use of retaliatory force within a specific territory – and the last feature requires fixed and protected borders. An indispensable job of a legitimate government includes managing the borders, setting liberal terms, processing the flows, and interdicting dangers (hostile actors, transmissible diseases). America’s most capitalist era (1865-1915) coincided with the “Ellis Island model” and we need that again, instead of the false choice of “open borders” (with no processing) or “closed borders” (with despotic-type walls)." - Dr. Richard Salsman

Those interested in attending should register HERE. Can’t join us Live? Can’t join us live? Check out the Morals & Markets podcast.

Suggested Readings/Sources:

• Kelley, David. “Open Society, Open Borders.” (Barron’s, 1985.05.11). PDF
• Powell, Edward. “Objectivist Views on Immigration.” (Objective Dissent, 2017.01.24). 
• Griswold, Daniel. “The Benefits of Immigration: Addressing Key Myths” (Mercatus Center, 2018.05.23).
• Binswanger, Harry. “Anti-Immigration Rhetoric Reveals Education's Failure” (Forbes, 2013.02.03)
• Rand, Ayn. “On Immigration (1973)” (ARI, 2017.02.07).  
• Dalmia, Shika. “Ayn Rand Was an Illegal Immigrant, per Today’s Republicans” (Reason, 2012.02.14)
• Kukathas, Chandran. “The Case for Open Immigration” (Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics, 2005).
• Freedman, Aaron. “Open Borders Made America Great” (The New Republic, 2019.08.09).
• Williamson, Chilton. “The Ideology of Unrestricted Immigration” (Modern Age, 2016.07.05).
• Simon, Julian. The Economic Consequences of Immigration into the U.S. (U-Michigan Press, 1998).
• Ellis Island’s History. 

Dr. Salsman is one of the leading proponents of the moral defense of Capitalism left in our country and is a dedicated scholar of Rand and Objectivism. He began hosting Morals & Markets for alumni of his classes at Duke who wanted to continue to have engaging conversations on contemporary topics that explore the intersection between ethics, politics, economics, and markets. Sessions begin with remarks by Dr. Salsman, followed by Q&A, discussion, and debate.

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