By Steve Sailer
10/13/2021
Earlier: David Card Wins Econ Nobel For Not Noticing Most Flagrant Cocaine Boom In Economic HistoryEarlier than that — 2006: George Borjas vs. David Card’s Unworldly Philosophy and 2017: HOTEL SCARFACE And The Economics of Immigration
From my new column in Taki’s Magazine:
The Nobel Prize and the Cocaine Gold Rush
Steve SailerOctober 13, 2021
This week’s awarding of the (quasi-) Nobel Prize in economics to David Card for, in part, an immigration study that I definitively undermined way back in 2006 raises a nagging question in my mind: As cancel culture gets ever more pervasive, are my better insights tending, perversely, to dumb down the world by ruling ever larger chunks of reality off-limits to the ambitious?
Card’s celebrated research into the impact on Miami wages of the 1980 Mariel boatlift of immigrants is such a sitting duck that it’s hard otherwise to explain why nobody respectable has dared call it out in the last decade and a half.
Is my productivity and prescience keeping more respectable thinkers from later either:
— Citing me for a discovery, and thus risk being tarred by guilt with association for having heard of me, or
— Stealing a discovery of mine and thus risking guilt by association that way?
Read the whole thing there.
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