![]() ![]() Now, growth in emerging markets is driven by huge populations adopting modern technologies and business models. Should it be done? That rests on two arguments: The first is that America’s global preeminence is due to its economic power, a result of being bigger than richer countries and richer than bigger countries throughout the 20th century. The US has the resources, physical and financial, to accomplish this transformation. ![]() Why are India’s farmers and politicians opposing the new agriculture reforms?Ĭan this be done? Yglesias argues that the US has plenty of room for new people to live without compromising living standards or threatening wild spaces: even a billion-person population will leave the lower 48 states less densely populated than Germany, Italy, or the UK are today. His big idea is to grow the US population to that eye-popping number, a 200% increase, by encouraging massive new waves of immigration and child-bearing. Matt Yglesias, a policy journalist and co-founder of Vox, argues that they can in a new book, One Billion Americans: The case for Thinking Bigger. immigration officers administer the oath as a swearing-in of newly naturalized United States citizens takes place in an empty parking lot during the outbreak of the coronavirus diseaseĪmericans can’t agree on anything-but can they agree on more of themselves? ![]()
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