Socialism aside, it would be difficult to run a decent social democracy with open borders. Perhaps some sort of Citizen's Income plus other social benefits tied to citizenship, combined with open borders for migrants but no automatic conferral of citizenship, combined with a less generous set of social benefits for non- citizens. This would, of course, be horrifically unjust - but much less unjust than what we have now.
Michael McIntyre
On Oct 3, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> I'm very sympathetic with this position, but as Hayek cogently
> pointed out, the normal space for economic planning under socialism
> or social democracy is the nation. How, in practical terms, do you
> run an economy with completely open borders?
>
> Doug
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