#84 Garett Jones: Hive Mind, The Importance of National IQ, and Immigration
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Dr. Garett Jones is Associate Professor of Economics and BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at the Mercatus Center, at George Mason University. His research interests include macroeconomics, monetary economics, and the microfoundations of economic growth. His work has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Economic Growth, and Critical Review. His first book, published in 2015 by Stanford University Press, is entitled Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own.
In this episode, we focus on Dr. Jones’ book, Hive Mind. Topics include: the individual and collective benefits of higher national IQs; how IQ correlates with emotional and social skills; its effects in the political realm; how it relates to current immigration issues; and possible solutions to improve IQ in the countries that lack it the most.
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Why your nation’s IQ matter
Benefits at the collective level
Individual IQ is not as important
Benefits for people on the low-end of the IQ scale
Other tests to evaluate academic skills
IQ correlates with emotional and social skills
More than genetics
IQ effects on politics
How are average national IQs relevant to immigration policy?
Possible solutions to improve IQ in the least resourceful nations
Where to follow Dr. Jones’ work
Follow Dr. Jones’s work:
Faculty page: https://economics.gmu.edu/people/gjonesb
Hive Mind: https://tinyurl.com/y9w2rdea
Twitter handle: @GarettJones