Nigel Harris
Nigel Harris is Professor Emeritus
of the Economics of the City at
University College London, and
currently works as an economic
consultant. He has worked
extensively in developing countries
for many international agencies and
national governments, and published
widely in the fields of economic
development, the economics of
urbanisation, migration and
globalisation. His latest work is
The Return of Cosmopolitan Capital:
Globalisation, the State and War
(IB Tauris).
Papers Published in World Economics:
Does Britain Need More Immigrants? A Debate
In this debate, Nigel Harris and David Coleman discuss the pros and cons of
migration. Taking the case of Britain, they address issues such as the desirability
or otherwise of migration controls, gains and losses from migration, the ‘optimum’
size and composition of the country’s workforce, and the demographic, social and
political consequences of migration.
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