Document Type
Article
Publication Title
University of Chicago Law Review Online
Abstract
Immigration laws invent scarcity. In modern states, immigration laws restrict access to a nation’s territory, placing limits on who is permitted to enter the territory and who is forced to leave. (They also restrict access to the nation’s political community by regulating access to citizenship.) Thus, the right to reside in a state and work in its labor markets can be conceptualized as a valuable and scarce property right—a property right created by sovereign decisions to erect legal barriers to human mobility. For all immigration systems, a central question is how best to allocate these scarce rights. The centrality of this question makes immigration policy a natural fit for the project that co-authors Eric Posner and E. Glen Weyl pursue in their important new book, Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society.
First Page
44
Volume
87
Publication Date
2019
Recommended Citation
Cox, Adam B., "Radical Markets or Conventional Politics? An Ambitious Guide to Reforming American Immigration Policy" (2019). Faculty Articles. 79.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-articles/79
