Introduction to my Book "Free to Move" Now Available for Free on SSRN

The Introduction summarizes the book's argument and provides an outline of the chapters that follow.

The Introduction to my book Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom, recently published by Oxford University Press, is now available for free download at the SSRN website. It briefly summarizes the argument of the book, and provides an overview of the chapters that follow.

The Introduction also includes a discussion of Frederick Douglass' powerful defense of both domestic and international freedom of movement, and of how both my life story and that of J.D. Vance, author of the bestselling book Hillbilly Elegy, are examples of the life-transforming effects of voting with your feet. Though, as I note in the Introduction (and discuss further in Chapter 5), Vance and I have some disagreements on the implications to be drawn from these experiences.

Comments

[librarian]

Thank you Professor Somin for your interesting book chapter. It makes me furious that some would doubt the sincerity of those of use who hold a Rawlsian liberal morality, and ascribe the worst possible motives in it's place. Thank you for your dedication to such a worthy cause.

[James K. Polk]

Yet more spam for his books.