The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move To a Lot Like the Ones They Left

The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move To a Lot Like the Ones They Left by Garett Jones

The prosperity of nations can be correlated to the people that live there. Immigrants to nations bring their standards of prosperity, whether they are colonizers or line capitalists. There is a strong correlation between Chinese immigration and prosperity in Southeast Asia. Northern European colonies tend to do better than Southern European ones. That is pretty much this book. The author quotes a number of papers and spends a lot of time talking about details. He attempts to take academic work and present it to a popular audience, but chances are this will skew just a little out of the academic realm. The details are explained by something he calls SAT score (State history, Agricultural History and Technological History). Looking at the state in 1500 has surprising predictive power. It also is somewhat depressing. Are we doomed based on what conditions were like a half-millennia ago?