Mises treated nations as malleable populations to be rearranged by migration
Evidence
Under full free movement of people and goods, there are nations whose areas would be more densely and others more thinly settled. This relative overpopulation must be dissolved now through movements of migration. … Mises saw the earth as a vast territory of varying natural endowments that needed to be exploited as thoroughly as possible through the mobility of capital, labor, and commerce. The drive toward productivity was axiomatic. He called it the “fundamental social law” of capitalism “to draw the greatest number of human beings into the personal division of labor and the whole earth’s surface into the geographical division of labor.” — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 362
Categorization
- QUESTION: Worth chasing: how does this early normative vision of mobile populations under free trade compare to later neoliberal-era positions on immigration and national borders?
- XREF: connects to: Migration erodes boundaries between languages, cultures, and nation-states — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3805
Broader Connections
- Migration erodes boundaries between languages, cultures, and nation-states
#expands(0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3805