Martin Wolf interviews Lant Pritchett: Is mass immigration inevitable?

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  In this week's episode, I will be discussing a subject close to my heart.

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  Immigration.

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  My parents were immigrants, both Jewish.

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  They came to Britain to escape Nazi persecution.

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  Had they been denied entry, they would have undoubtedly perished in the Holocaust,

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  as did almost all members of their families.

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  This is the Economics Show.

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  I'm Martin Wolf in London and in this episode I'm talking to Lant Pritchett,

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  development economist and visiting professor in practice at the London School of Economics.

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  He has also worked at Harvard University and Oxford University.

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  Lant is a highly influential economist and he has, among other things,

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  co authored several papers with last week's guest, Larry Summers.

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  Notably,

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  Lant has argued

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  that immigration is invaluable to both the poor countries that export labour and the rich countries that import it.

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  But such arguments, of course,

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  swim against the current tide of anti immigrant populism in the rich world.

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  Lant, welcome to the show.

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  Thanks for having me.

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  I hadn't realized

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