The U.S. really wins on brain drain.
In fact, between 2001 and 2010, it received more inventors than everyone else combined. Its net inventor receipt makes it hard to see anyone else on the chart! https://t.co/6egnnBeh9A
The U.S. really wins on brain drain. In fact, between 2001 and 2010, it received more inventors than everyone else combined. Its net inventor receipt makes it hard to see anyone else on the chart! https://t.co/6egnnBeh9A
high-skill immigration, since foreign-born geniuses starting American companies—in green energy, yes, but also in software and beyond—is perhaps the greatest free lunch in all of economics.
The Atlantic • A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems
the inescapable reality of the bell-curve distribution stipulates that there are far more very smart people in India and China than in the United States.
Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
the brain drain. Coined in 1962 to describe the large-scale migration of skilled technocrats from Britain to the United States, the term was quickly co-opted to describe a related, even more dramatic phenomenon: the movement of educated professionals from developing countries, particularly India and China, to developed nations, particularly the Uni
... See moreMinal Hajratwala • Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
Many countries with aging populations and more deaths than births—the US, Japan, China, Russia, and the UK, to name a few—will actually find themselves competing for migrants, and not just “skilled” ones.
Jane McGonigal • Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything—Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
During the age of discovery, progress was driven by a handful of elite thinkers, virtually all of whom were clustered in the United States and Canada.
