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Freakonomics Radio
The book was highlighted as the foundation for a series of episodes, with the host introducing a listener quiz based on its content. Its author, a Wharton professor, explained how it debunked common anti‑immigration myths and presented evidence of net positive benefits, while also emphasizing the importance of family‑based immigration. The discussion portrayed the title as a well‑researched, fact‑driven contribution to the immigration conversation.
Episode: Extra: How Much Do You Know About Immigration?
Zeke Hernandez's forthcoming book, "The Truth About Immigration", was mentioned as the foundation for the series. The book includes a quiz that was administered to listeners of the show.
He came to our attention because of a book he has got coming out soon called The Truth About Immigration. The book includes a quiz and we thought it might be interesting to have some Freakonomics Radio listeners take this quiz.
And Zeke is going to quiz you on some immigration facts and statistics. Is that sound okay?
Zee Krenandez who's a business professor at the Wharton School at Penn and he's the author of a forthcoming book called the Truth About Immigration.
And Zee K is going to ask you some questions and we'll see how much you know does that sound okay?
Episode: 582. Why Is Everyone Moving to Canada?
This book, available for pre-order in 2024, explores the idea of why successful societies welcome newcomers and analyzes immigration in an insightful and engaging manner.
I study how movement affects businesses in the economy, particularly the movement of people.
I think any immigration policy should have as a key goal keeping families intact and reuniting families if they've been separated.
I prefer a model that's more balanced. I think family-based immigration, it's really important for social reasons, families staying together.
How are you going to be happy and integrate into the country if you can't live with the people you love?
It's kind of ironic to me that a lot of people who for years pointed at the Soviet central planning system and laughed at how inefficient it was and used that to be so proud of our market system in the US are totally fine with a centrally planned system for managing talent.
Episode: 581. What Both Parties Get Wrong About Immigration
Zeke Hernandez, a professor of management at Wharton, discussed his upcoming book "The Truth About Immigration," which delves into the complex issue of immigration and challenges common misconceptions surrounding it. He argued that the anti-immigration movement often relies on a 'villain' narrative, which paints immigrants as job-stealers and threats to national security, and a 'victim' narrative, which focuses on the plight of immigrants without acknowledging their benefits to the host country.
That's Zika Hernandez. He's a professor of management at Wharton and the author of a forthcoming book called The Truth About Immigration.
I call one of them the villain narrative, which is the idea that immigrants heard us because they steal our jobs, they threaten our national security, they threaten the rule of law, the evidence contradicts that.
But then interestingly on the pro-immigrants side, the most common narrative was what I call the victim narrative, which is the idea that immigration is good for immigrants.
And I thought, boy we're giving up so much because the evidence so overwhelmingly shows net positive benefits for us, not for immigrants.
I understand it and so I don't want to be on compassionate for that kind of concern.
Episode: 580. The True Story of America’s Supremely Messed-...
The book was published in June and contains lots of research and facts to bring some facts to the table about immigration, which is often talked about with emotion or politics.
It is called The Truth About Immigration.
It is a book full of research and facts.
In my world of business schools, when I started becoming interested in the relationship between the movement of people and the movement of companies or their investments across the world, a lot of people in my field, bulked at the idea they thought, why are you studying this?
It's not that I thought I'm going to be an immigration scholar and try to make sense of this life decision I made.
The research in Hernandez's book tells the long and rather volatile history of American immigration.
