Sharing what I have learned from what I have read: A blog by Joe Abittan
Another interesting consideration about charitable giving addressed in The Elephant in the Brain has to do with which charities we chose to donate large sums of money to. If part of our charitable donations is intended to impress other people and show them how generous and caring we are, then we want to make sure … Continue reading Well Known Charities
An argument that Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson present in their book The Elephant in the Brain is that when we donate to charity, we are signaling to others how caring and generous we are as humans. The actual good that our donation will do is secondary to being the kind of person who is … Continue reading Return on Donation
In the United States we don’t like the way our politics looks from the outside. We don’t like the fact that special interests lobby and seem to buy legislators. We don’t like that it is hard to have a voice and to have a say in what happens. We don’t like that political families seem … Continue reading The Organization of Effective Political Power