“Poor Economics” Needs a Theory
To understand poverty, we need a more complex epistemology that allows for the interdependencies which correlation often implies.
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Environmental Sustainability Through Adaptation
UCLA professor Matt Kahn talks about the scope of serious environmental sustainability issues.
Bringing Philanthropy to China
Insight into the cultural, philosophical, and historical factors that shape China’s emerging philanthropic efforts.
No art? No social change. No innovation economy.
America must invest in art and imaginative capacity.
Big Society or Collective Impact?
How are the UK and US addressing the third sector’s next challenges, and where they are failing?
In Foreign Aid, Nonprofits Could Use Some Disruption
Nonprofits should seek for-profit allies who are interested and invested in their causes—even if they don’t walk into the first meeting with a signed check.
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New School Economics
More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty by Dean Karlan & Jacob Appel
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Just Instincts
The Fair Society: The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice by Peter Corning
Virtue or Else
Under the EPA’s Audit Policy, violators who voluntarily report themselves can get certain penalties reduced or waived if they commit to ongoing self-regulation.
The New Bottom Billion
According to a new analysis, most of the world’s poor no longer live in the poorest countries.