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The Shadow of the Past

Economist Garett Jones documents how immigration transforms economic and political institutions by importing attitudes toward everything from saving, trust, and the role of government.

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Pedro L. Gonzalez
Sep 07, 2023
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The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move to a Lot Like the Ones They Left
By Garrett Jones
Stanford Business Books
228 pp., $19.20

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