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… is from page 6 of Julian Simon [2]‘s 1989 volume, The Economic Consequences of Immigration [3] (citation omitted; original emphasis):
Even more astonishing to some – but an indubitable economic fact – natural resources are increasingly less important with each passing decade. The crucial capital nowadays is “human capital” – people’s skills plus the stock of knowledge – and migrants bring this human capital with them.