Talking to Elephants
Appeals to caring for the needy are likely to backfire unless advocates acknowledge and avoid inflaming passions that stem from other powerful moral values.
Social Issues - Articles
The Future of Fair Trade…Is There One?
If Fair Trade coffee quality doesn’t improve, the Direct Trade movement will quickly become a growing threat.
Are You Ready for the Big Shift?
So many people in the stage of life after midlife and before true old age have so much experience, time, and capacity to do something significant.
“Poor Economics” Needs a Theory
To understand poverty, we need a more complex epistemology that allows for the interdependencies which correlation often implies.
Podcast
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.
Review
New School Economics
More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty by Dean Karlan & Jacob Appel