The Gates Foundation Is an Interesting Case Study

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Conservative on twitter often make fun rightly of a bunch of commentators from mainstream cable news channels. They realize that they can't single-handedly solve hunger or these the movement of effective altruisms, he says. He suggests rich people use their money to push governments around to do kind of what they want the companies to do but it's a force that can be used for good.

Charles Kenny is a writer-researcher and a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. Previously, he spent fifteen years as an economist at the World Bank. His books include The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease and The Upside of Down: Why the Rise of the Rest is Good for the West.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Charles Kenny discuss why development aid is more effective than its critics claim; why it is easier to solve "stuff" problems than it is to solve "non-stuff" problems; and why effective altruists need to start thinking bigger.

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