Episode
William MacAskill on Effective Altruism and Doing Good Better
EconTalk · Sep 7, 2015 · 1 h 09 min
How much care do you take when you make a donation to a charity? What careers make the biggest difference when it comes to helping others? William MacAskill of Oxford University and the author of Doing Good Better talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the book and the idea of effective altruism. MacAskill urges donors to spend their money more effectively and argues that the impact on…