February 28, 2012 | 10:11 AM | By

To make America great again, make more Americans

Charles Kenny (weirdly?) makes the case that we need to increase our population in order to improve our global economic position. It starts out as a sideways argument for allowing more migrant workers, but ends talking about national rates of procreation. Others will point out that population growth, in general, is not necessarily a good long-term solution … for anything. It’s mostly a problem.


Meanwhile, migration might also help close a little of the per capita GDP growth gap with China as well. A recent paper in the journal Economics Letters suggests that a 10 percent rise in a country’s migrant stock increases that country’s per capita income by 2.2 percent.

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