Paul Romer's Radical Idea

Paul Romer's Radical Idea

Imagine that the United States and Cuba agree to disengage by closing the military base and transferring local administrative control to Canada...

To help the city flourish, the Canadians encourage immigration. It is a place with Canadian judges and Mounties that happily accepts millions of immigrants. Some of the new residents could be Cuban émigrés who return from North America. Others might be Haitians who come work in garment factories that firms no longer feel safe bringing into Haiti...

Initially, the government of Cuba lets some of its citizens participate by migrating to the new city. Over ...