Weekly links April 30: immigration economics explained, Marvel and migration, those economists aren’t being rude, they just don’t have enough prefrontal function, and more… · The economics of expanding immigration – podcast/transcript from an AEIdeas discussion between Michael Clemens and James Pethokoukis. An absolute must-read for Michael’s great overview of the different debates in policy and command of what the literature has to say about these issues. “The “common sense” is that immigrants are workers, and when there are more workers selling labor, the price of labor (wages) is going to go down….[but] they don’t just sell their labor. They buy the produce of other people’s labor. They invest in stuff, including financial capital and their own human capital. They innovate, including some of our start-up firms. So I don’t think focusing on immigrants just as factors of production is a helpful view of immigrants’ economic effects”.