Peter Brimelow and "reactionary internationalism"
 

Peter Brimelow's "reactionary internationalism"
 
a form of "closed borders libertarianism" (83)
 
drawing on the Mont Pelerin economic concept of the "metamarket" (base-level preconditions necessary for flexible economic trade) and expanding it to include zones of "ethnic and cultural coherence," Brimelow was able to argue that "immigration [was] a metamarket issue"
 
Brimelow: "some cultures can handle the marketplace's atomism and impersonality better"
 
He "saw correctly that the 1990s were a time of combining more freedom of movement for goods with less freedom of movement for people"
 
see his 1995 book Alien Nation (one year after The Bell Curve; three years after Pat Buchanan's first Presidential campaign)
 
Alien Nation draws on Garrett Hardin's "Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor" (published 1974 in Psychology Today)

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