{"id":7865,"date":"2012-10-08T05:19:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T05:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7865"},"modified":"2012-10-08T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T18:11:07","slug":"economics-dont-live-in-a-word-of-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/economics-dont-live-in-a-word-of-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Economists don&#8217;t live in a world of facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2012\/10\/the-secret-to-us-growth-in-the-21st-century-more-asians\/263161\/\">The Secret to U.S. Growth in the 21st Century: More Asians<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Furthermore, I believe that the cultural benefits of Asian immigration will be just as big as the economic and political benefits. Adding diversity to our melting pot will speed up America&#8217;s inevitable and necessary transition from a &#8220;nation of all European races&#8221; <b>to a &#8220;nation of all races.&#8221; The sooner that happens &#8212; the sooner people realize that America&#8217;s multi-racialization is a done deal &#8212; the quicker our political debate can shed its current ethnic overtones and go back to being about the issues.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As an empirical matter multiracial\/ethnic\/religious societies don&#8217;t move beyond ethnic overtones in politics, <b>they formalize them as the <i>modus vivendi<\/i>.<\/b> This is not a controversial point. That an academic economist could hold such a view says a lot about economics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secret to U.S. Growth in the 21st Century: More Asians: Furthermore, I believe that the cultural benefits of Asian immigration will be just as big as the economic and political benefits. Adding diversity to our melting pot will speed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/economics-dont-live-in-a-word-of-facts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7868,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7865\/revisions\/7868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}