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Simple Ideas can have unintended explosive impacts. Professor Wolfgang Kasper's article Immigration, Institutions, Harmony and Prosperity" (Quadrant, November 2001) is an apparently objective but incomplete analysis that aims to demonstrate that migrants from the Middle East are inherently more costly for Australia than migrants than migrants from other areas. For a free-market economist. Professor Kasper also approaches the subject of immigration in an unexpectedly controlling manner, seeking to prescribe the size and mix of migrants on cultural or geographic grounds. Taken out of context, his arguments could be used to reinforce force false stereotypes and justify harsh ...