If People Were Movies ? Free Speech and Free Association

The modern world is characterized by vast movements of money and people across national borders. It is a noteworthy feature of debates around borders and sovereignty since the 1980s that the movement of labor has generally proved much more controversial than the movement of capital. An important early 1990s collection on the ethics of transnational flows of money and people focused on the normative significance, if any, of this distinction in treatment. The introduction to the collection, by Robert Goodin, set out what Goodin called “the requirement of symmetry.” According to Goodin, symmetry demands that (in the absence of a compelling argument to show otherwise) political thinkers should respond to the movement of capital, in