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  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Stanford Economics and Finance (November 11, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0804785961
  • ISBN-13: 978-0804785969
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
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My debate opponent and former co-blogger Garett Jones' Hive Mind: How Your Nation's IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own is finally out. It's a wonderful book in both substance and style - peak Garett. He instinctively hews to my seven guidelines for writing worthy non-fiction. Guideline-by-guideline:

1. Pick an important topic. "Why are some countries rich and other countries poor?" is perennial. "Why does national IQ have a bigger effect on national income than personal IQ does on personal income?" may not seem earth-shaking on the surface, but Garett powerfully argues that IQ is an elephant in the room.

2. Learn a lot about your topic. Garett's read widely in macro, development, psychology, experiment econ, and beyond. You can also tell he's traveled the world with his eyes open.

3. Keep telling yourself: "Once I perfect the organization of my book, it will practically write itself." Garett breaks his book down into a gripping introduction and ten pithy chapters. The introduction shines a blinding spotlight on the key facts about national IQ and national prosperity. Having piqued your interest, he then tries to get every reader on the same page. Chapters 1-3 target reach out to IQ skeptics, and explain the saga of the Flynn Effect. Chapters 4-8 explain the most plausible mechanisms behind IQ's macroeconomic effects. Chapter 9 explores the implications for immigration so fairly I found myself nodding throughout. Chapter 10 wraps it all up. Elegant!

4. Never preach to the choir. Garett earnestly tries to reach not only the typical IQ-apathetic economist, but the typical IQ-phobic intellectual.
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(This review is also listed at: https://ricochet.com/review-hive-mind-nations-iq-matters-much/)

My colleague at the George Mason economics department, Garett Jones, has written an excellent new book, Hive Mind.

The book’s primary and most important contribution is to document the following empirical regularity: Suppose you could a) improve your own IQ by 10 points, or b) improve the IQs of your fellow countrymen (but not your own) by 10 points. Which would do more to increase your income? The answer is (b), and it’s not even close. The latter choice improves your income by about 6 times the former choice.

One implication of the regularity should please some conservatives—perhaps especially Ann Coulter and Donald Trump. It says that, if the U.S. continues its current policy of admitting many third-world immigrants, then this will likely decrease the incomes of current citizens. Alternatively, it also implies that a better policy would be to admit only “the best” people, in the words of Donald Trump.

Jones devotes much of the book to explaining why this empirical regularity exists. Many of the reasons that he discusses are political or cultural. For instance, he presents evidence showing that high-IQ countries tend to have less corruption. He also presents evidence from laboratory experiments showing that high-IQ people tend to cooperate with each other more than low-IQ people.

Jones also discusses some reasons from microeconomics that help explain the empirical regularity. Specifically, he shows that your own productivity tends to increase when you work around people who have high IQs.

To illustrate the latter effect, Jones’s constructs an example, which I call “the parable of the vases.
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This is an excellent book. It serves both as an introduction to the study of IQ and human capital and as an insightful, original, and extremely accessible exploration of the some of the most important issues facing modern economies.

Garett Jones begins with the puzzle that IQ has a modest effect on an individual's earnings but a nation's average IQ strongly predicts per capita GDP. The explanation of this finding is the heart of the book. Drawing on research from psychology, economics and other fields, Jones shows that human capital (as measured by test scores) has several important effects on how economies perform ranging from higher savings rates to better politics and more cooperative social norms and institutions. He then shows why human capital matters most in those sectors of the economy that economists label O-Ring, where a tiny mistake can have a disproportionate affect on output. As these sectors of the economy are an increasingly important source of economic growth understanding how to build and preserve a high human capital workforce is of critical importance.

Remarkably I would recommend the book to any intelligent reader. It requires no-background knowledge of either economics or IQ research (and indeed serves as a nice introduction to both). Furthermore, it is extremely readable. Yet despite its apparent simplicity and accessibility, it contains many novel insights and PhD economists and researchers in development and growth economics would also learn a tremendous amount from reading it.

[In the interests of full disclosure, Garett is my colleague at George Mason's Public Choice Center.]
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