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Podcast: New Books in Political Science
Episode: From the Invention of the Passport to the Golden Passport
Description: In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Kristin Surak, professor at the London School of Economics, about her new book, The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires (Harvard University Press, 2023). The conversation starts with the contrast of Torpeyâs The Invention of the Passport (Cambridge UP, 2018) and the âgolden passport,â which reflects how, in the past three decades, many countries have opened avenues for the wealthy to buy passports and citizenship (aka âcitizenship by investmentâ). Surak discusses the creation of this market and the reasons why some countries are opening these opportunities. Despite not necessarily being attractiv...