September 28, 2015
Me, Elsewhere
I’ve written a few things for other websites that might be of interest to readers of this blog. The Washington Post’s In Theory blog is doing a series on the…
Author: Matt Zwolinski
September 04, 2015
Helping the Global Poor with Charity that Works
Suppose you’re convinced by Peter Singer’s thought experiment, and believe that those of us in rich countries have a moral duty to help the global poor. How should we go…
August 28, 2015
“You Didn’t Build That!” (1898 Edition)
Attempts to undermine the moral justification of private property by pointing to the highly social nature of wealth production are not new. Here’s the late 19th century English economist J.A….
August 26, 2015
History’s Most Successful Anti-Poverty Program
The second view in my new series with Learn Liberty is out (see here for the first). In it, I begin to talk about different ways of addressing the problem…
August 17, 2015
Would You Save the Drowning Child?
I’ve got a series of new videos coming out from Learn Liberty on the problem of poverty. The first one was released last week, and introduces the issue with a…
July 07, 2015
Is There a Conflict Between Altruism and Economic Growth?
Readers of this blog might be interested in a symposium that Boston Review is running on Peter Singer’s idea of “Effective Altruism.” For those who aren’t familiar with that term, the basic…