Article on the Vox website (Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists) on diversity and immigration in which the authors (Alberto Alesina, Johann Harnoss, Hillel Rapoport) ask the question: How much diversity is good?
The answer is of course: exactly the amount of diversity that has the democratic consent of the majority.
If it doesn't have democratic consent then don't even think of forcing it through as it will all have to be reversed, with much pain all round.
It is possible that Alberto Alesina, Johann Harnoss, Hillel Rapoport (and Jonathan Portes) don't actually believe in democracy. It's possible they believe in rule by a benign technocratic elite, perhaps with a little democratic dressing to bamboozle the lumpen proletariat. However all regimes that have subscribed to this belief have eventually come to grief (and dragged a lot of other people into grief along with them, as elite technocrat President Assad is currently demonstrating).
http://www.voxeu.org/article/immigration-diversity-and-economic-prosperity
The answer is of course: exactly the amount of diversity that has the democratic consent of the majority.
If it doesn't have democratic consent then don't even think of forcing it through as it will all have to be reversed, with much pain all round.
It is possible that Alberto Alesina, Johann Harnoss, Hillel Rapoport (and Jonathan Portes) don't actually believe in democracy. It's possible they believe in rule by a benign technocratic elite, perhaps with a little democratic dressing to bamboozle the lumpen proletariat. However all regimes that have subscribed to this belief have eventually come to grief (and dragged a lot of other people into grief along with them, as elite technocrat President Assad is currently demonstrating).
http://www.voxeu.org/article/immigration-diversity-and-economic-prosperity
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