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Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty

by Peter Singer · 3 Mar 2009 · 190pp · 61,970 words

colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Singer, Peter The life you can save : acting now to end world poverty / Peter Singer p. cm. Includes index. eISBN: 978-1-58836-779-2 1. Charity. 2. Humanitarianism. 3. Economic assistance. 4. Poverty. I. Title. HV48.S56

Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better

by Rob Reich · 20 Nov 2018 · 257pp · 75,685 words

discussion. In recent years Singer has made efforts to popularize his view, e.g., The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (New York: Random House, 2010); The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas about Living Ethically (New Haven, CT: Yale University

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. Singer, Peter. “Famine, Affluence, and Morality.” Philosophy and Public Affairs 1 (1972): 229–243. ———. The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty. New York: Random House, 2010. ———. The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas about Living Ethically. New Haven, CT: Yale University

Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference

by William MacAskill · 27 Jul 2015 · 293pp · 81,183 words

in “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 1, no. 1 (Spring 1972): 229–43 and The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty (New York: Random House, 2009). On the basis of his arguments, we both made commitments to donate everything we earn above £20,000 per year

Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn

by Chris Hughes · 20 Feb 2018 · 173pp · 53,564 words

.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/bit-cash-can-keep-someone-streets-2-years-or-more. Singer, Peter. The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty. Random House (Kindle Edition), 2009. Soergel, Andrew. “Mnuchin ‘Not At All’ Worried About Automation Displacing Jobs.” U.S. News, March 24, 2017. https://www.usnews

The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

by Angus Deaton · 15 Mar 2013 · 374pp · 114,660 words

mortality,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 1(1): 229–43; quote on p. 242. 8. Peter Singer, 2009, The life you can save: Acting now to end world poverty, Random House. 9. The data on aid in this chapter, unless otherwise noted explicitly, come from Development Assistance Committee, OECD, http://www.oecd.org/dac

Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic

by Hugh Sinclair · 4 Oct 2012 · 346pp · 101,763 words

the cure for global poverty: An amazing visionary economist in Bangladesh named Mohammed Yunus founded the Grameen Bank and demonstrated a simple, effective way to end world poverty. Small, low-cost loans to the poor unleash their entrepreneurial potential and allow them to start profitable businesses that bring prosperity to themselves, their children

Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls

by Tim Marshall · 8 Mar 2018 · 256pp · 75,139 words

nearly double in size. This increased economic activity would, moreover, disproportionately benefit the world’s poorest people. Smith argues that by opening borders we could end world poverty, and therefore that it is, in a way, a moral duty for those of us in the West to do so, especially in terms of

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

by William Easterly · 1 Mar 2006

man. I am always moved when I listen to him speak. Unfortunately, his intellectual solutions are less convincing. Professor Sachs offers a Big Plan to end world poverty, with solutions ranging from nitrogen-fixing leguminous trees to replenish soil fertility, to antiretroviral therapy for AIDS, to specially programmed cell phones to provide real

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review the decades of experience that show aid agencies to be cows, not racehorses. Likewise, we will see in this book that aid agencies cannot end world poverty, but they can do many useful things to meet the desperate needs of the poor and give them new opportunities. For example, instead of trying

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overthrow evil dictators and remake other societies into some reflection of Western democratic capitalism is the extreme of contemporary utopian social engineering. The plan to end world poverty shows all the pretensions of utopian social engineering. Democratic politics is about searching for piecemeal solutions: a local group engages in political action to campaign

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hard for the principal’s interests. These problems become a nightmare under the Planner’s mind-set, where there is some utopian objective such as ending world poverty. The rich-country politician could judge the aid agency based on the overall poverty outcome—but that assumes a known relationship between foreign aid efforts

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of imperialism and colonialism, new or old, and so this chapter is less relevant for them. Yet the neo-imperialists represent an influential approach to ending world poverty that needs to be addressed. Following the familiar escalation syndrome, failed intrusions of the West provide the motivation for the West to become even more

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker · 13 Feb 2018 · 1,034pp · 241,773 words

. The expanding circle: Ethics and sociobiology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Singer, P. 2010. The life you can save: How to do your part to end world poverty. New York: Random House. Singh, J. P., Grann, M., & Fazel, S. 2011. A comparative study of violence risk assessment tools: A systematic review and metaregression

Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change From the Cult of Technology

by Kentaro Toyama · 25 May 2015 · 494pp · 116,739 words

[1994]). I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked. University of California Press. Singer, Peter. (2009). The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty. Picador. ———. (2011). The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress. Princeton University Press. 60 Minutes. (2011). Extra: Revolution 2.0. CBS News, Feb. 14, 2011