February 6, 2020
“Just Tell Me What Poverty Means” Like Shaq and Kobe, Martín Burt and Luis Fernando Sanabria form a team for the ages. Martin, Executive Director of […]
January 20, 2020
In the year before his death Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. published the book Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? In one of […]
December 3, 2019
Last year I posted my recommendations for giving on Giving Tuesday (for those not living in the US, this is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving). This year […]
October 9, 2019
A review of the book Factfulness by Hans Rosling Am I Safe? If you talk to the people who run TV newsrooms about how they decide […]
September 30, 2019
Can You Beat a Chimpanzee? You may ace every news quiz you take, but how well does that help you know what has been going on […]
September 12, 2019
The Business Roundtable (BRT) now believes that businesses should pursue social objectives in addition to profits. I wrote a post about it a couple weeks ago. […]
September 12, 2019
The Business Roundtable (BRT) now believes that businesses should pursue social objectives in addition to profits. I wrote a post about it a couple weeks ago. […]
August 28, 2019
If you were watching the PBS News Hour on Friday night, you would have seen a piece entitled “A Scientific Approach to Evaluation Global Anti-Poverty Programs.” […]
August 21, 2019
A New Purpose for Corporations? On August 19, 2019, the Business Round Table, a gathering of 200 of the largest businesses in the US, decided to […]
July 3, 2019
The divine messenger appeared to the peasant farmer. “The Almighty has decided to bless you, hard-working farmer. Whatever you wish for will be granted.” The farmer […]
June 6, 2019
Step to the Line “All those who have committed a crime that caused them to be arrested and imprisoned, step forward,” the leader called out. A […]
May 9, 2019
How a psychiatrist from Zimbabwe is revolutionizing access to mental health care.
April 25, 2019
Almost every social problem gets worse with greater income inequality and improves when there is more equality. This is true not only for the poor but also for the rich, who have longer life spans and better quality of life in countries with less inequality.