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How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
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Peter Singer
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Peter Singer's books and ideas have been disturbing our complacency ever since the appearance of Animal Liberation. Now he directs our attention to a new movement in which his own ideas have played a crucial role: effective altruism.
Effective altruism is built upon the simple, but profound, idea that living a fully ethical life involves doing the "most good you can do". Such a life requires an unsentimental view of charitable giving: To be a worthy recipient of our support, an organization must be able to demonstrate that it will do more good with our money or our time than other options open to us. Singer introduces us to an array of remarkable people who are restructuring their lives in accordance with these ideas and shows how living altruistically often leads to greater personal fulfillment than living for oneself.
The Most Good You Can Do develops the challenges Singer has made to those who donate to the arts, and to charities focused on helping our fellow citizens, rather than those for whom we can do the most good. Effective altruists are extending our knowledge of the possibilities of living less selfishly and of allowing reason, rather than emotion, to determine how we live. The Most Good You Can Do offers new hope for our ability to tackle the world's most pressing problems.
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We've all heard that the American Dream is vanishing, and that the cause is rising income inequality. The rich are getting richer by rigging the system in their favor, leaving the rest of us to struggle just to keep our heads above water. To save the American Dream, we're told that we need to fight inequality through tax hikes, wealth redistribution schemes, and a far higher minimum wage.
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While I agree with most of this book,...
- De Wayne en 12-30-16
De: Don Watkins, y otros
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Creating Freedom
- The Lottery of Birth, the Illusion of Consent, and the Fight for Our Future
- De: Raoul Martinez
- Narrado por: Steve West
- Duración: 17 h y 35 m
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A manifesto for deep and radical change, Creating Freedom explores the limits placed on freedom by human nature and society. It explodes myths, calling for a profound transformation in the way we think about democracy, equality, and our own identities.
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The BEST book, I've listened to in a long time
- De G. Newton en 04-16-17
De: Raoul Martinez
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The Nordic Theory of Everything
- In Search of a Better Life
- De: Anu Partanen
- Narrado por: Abby Craden
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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Moving to America in 2008, Finnish journalist Anu Partanen quickly went from confident, successful professional to wary, self-doubting mess. She found that navigating the basics of everyday life - from buying a cell phone and filing taxes to education and childcare - was much more complicated and stressful than anything she encountered in her homeland. At first she attributed her crippling anxiety to the difficulty of adapting to a freewheeling new culture. But as she got to know Americans better, she discovered they shared her deep apprehension.
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A non-radical perspective on two societies
- De kwdayboise (Kim Day) en 06-20-17
De: Anu Partanen
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Losing Ground
- American Social Policy, 1950 - 1980
- De: Charles Murray
- Narrado por: Robert Morris
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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Beginning in the 1950s, America entered a period of unprecedented social reform. This remarkable book demonstrates how the social programs of the 1960s and ’70s had the unintended and perverse effect of slowing and even reversing earlier progress in reducing poverty, crime, ignorance, and discrimination. Using widely understood and accepted data, it conclusively demonstrates that the amalgam of reforms from 1965 to 1970 actually made matters worse.
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A great book ruined by a terrible recording
- De Michael en 04-05-13
De: Charles Murray
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The Mind of the Market
- Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics
- De: Michael Shermer
- Narrado por: Michael Shermer
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
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The Mind of the Market will change the way we think about the economics of everyday life. Drawing on research from neuroeconomics, Michael Shermer explores what brain scans reveal about bargaining, snap purchases, and how trust is established in business. Utilizing experiments in behavioral economics, Shermer shows why people hang on to losing stocks and failing companies, why business negotiations often disintegrate into emotional tit-for-tat disputes, and why money does not make us happy.
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Good ideas overshadowed by obnoxious polemics
- De Philo en 09-15-13
De: Michael Shermer
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How Much is Enough?
- Money and the Good Life
- De: Edward Skidelsky
- Narrado por: Clay Teunis
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
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What constitutes the good life? What is the true value of money? Why do we work such long hours merely to acquire greater wealth? These are some of the questions that many asked themselves when the financial system crashed in 2008. This book tackles such questions head-on.The authors begin with the great economist John Maynard Keynes. In 1930 Keynes predicted that, within a century, per capita income would steadily rise, people’s basic needs would be met, and no one would have to work more than fifteen hours a week.
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Not what I expected at all!
- De Brad and Chi en 05-22-23
De: Edward Skidelsky
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Imaginable
- How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything - Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
- De: Jane McGonigal
- Narrado por: Jane McGonigal
- Duración: 16 h y 31 m
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The COVID-19 pandemic, increasingly frequent climate disasters, a new war—events we might have called “unimaginable” or “unthinkable” in the past are now reality. Today it feels more challenging than ever to feel unafraid, hopeful, and equipped to face the future with optimism. How do we map out our lives when it seems impossible to predict what the world will be like next week, let alone next year or next decade? What we need now are strategies to help us recover our confidence and creativity in facing uncertain futures.
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Fabulous content, INSUFFERABLE narration!
- De Kelly en 05-24-22
De: Jane McGonigal
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The Conservative Heart
- How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America
- De: Arthur C. Brooks
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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In The Conservative Heart, Arthur C. Brooks contends that after years of focusing on economic growth and traditional social values, it is time for a new kind of conservatism - one that helps the vulnerable without mortgaging our children's future. In Brooks' daring vision, this conservative movement fights poverty, promotes equal opportunity, celebrates earned success, and values spiritual enlightenment. It is an inclusive movement with a positive agenda to help people lead happier, more hopeful, and more satisfied lives.
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Outstanding recitation of conservatism!
- De GLENNO en 08-06-15
De: Arthur C. Brooks
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Focus
- Use Different Ways of Seeing the World for Success and Influence
- De: Heidi Grant Halvorson Ph.D., E. Tory Higgins PhD
- Narrado por: Karen Saltus
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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We all want to experience pleasure and avoid pain. But there are really two kinds of pleasure and pain that motivate everything we do. If you are promotion-focused, you want to advance and avoid missed opportunities. If you are prevention-focused, you want to minimize losses and keep things working. And as Tory Higgins has found in his groundbreaking research, if you understand how people focus, you have the power to motivate yourself and everyone around you.
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Pain / Pleasure
- De Serena K. en 02-13-17
De: Heidi Grant Halvorson Ph.D., y otros
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Willful Blindness
- Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
- De: Margaret Heffernan
- Narrado por: Margaret Heffernan
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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Margaret Heffernan argues that the biggest threats and dangers we face are the ones we don't see - not because they're secret or invisible, but because we're willfully blind. A distinguished businesswoman and writer, she examines the phenomenon and traces its imprint in our private and working lives, and within governments and organizations, and asks: What makes us prefer ignorance? What are we so afraid of? Why do some people see more than others? And how can we change?
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How Not to Be the Blind Leading the Blind
- De Cynthia en 06-29-13
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A Bigger Prize
- How We Can Do Better Than the Competition
- De: Margaret Heffernan
- Narrado por: Margaret Heffernan
- Duración: 15 h y 48 m
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From the cranberry bogs of Massachusetts to the classrooms of Singapore and Finland, from tiny start-ups to global engineering firms and beloved American organizations like Ocean Spray, Eileen Fisher, Gore, and Boston Scientific, Heffernan discovers ways of living and working that foster creativity, spark innovation, reinforce our social fabric, and feel so much better than winning.
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Margaret Heffernan is brilliant!
- De Eric Willingham en 06-09-16
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Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. Now, in Ethics in the Real World, Singer shows that he is also a master at dissecting important current events in a few hundred words. In this book of brief essays, he applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of high-priced art, and ways of increasing happiness.
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I wish I could get a refund
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In this Tenth Anniversary Edition of The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer brings his landmark book up to date. In addition to restating his compelling arguments about how we should respond to extreme poverty, he examines the progress we are making and recounts how the first edition transformed the lives both of audiences and the people they helped. Learn how you can be part of the solution, doing good for others while adding fulfillment to your own life.
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Good book, but a bad listen
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Most of us want to make a difference. We donate our time and money to charities and causes we deem worthy, choose careers we consider meaningful, and patronize businesses and buy products we believe make the world a better place. Unfortunately we often base these decisions on assumptions and emotions rather than facts. As a result even our best intentions often lead to ineffective - and sometimes downright harmful - outcomes. How can we do better?
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An ethical freakonomics
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Consider the Turkey
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A turkey is the centerpiece of countless Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Yet most of us know almost nothing about today's specially bred, commercially produced birds. In this brief book, bestselling author Peter Singer tells their story—and, unfortunately, it's not a happy one. Along the way, he also offers a brief history of the turkey and its consumption, ridicules the annual US presidential "pardon" of a Thanksgiving turkey, and introduces us to "a tremendously handsome, outgoing, and intelligent turkey" named Cornelius. Above all, Singer explains how we can improve our holiday tables.
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Altruism
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In Happiness, Matthieu Ricard demonstrated that true happiness is not tied to fleeting moments or sensations, but is an enduring state of soul rooted in mindfulness and compassion for others. Now he turns his lens from the personal to the global, with a rousing argument that altruism - genuine concern for the well-being of others - could be the saving grace of the 21st century. It is, he believes, the vital thread that can answer the main challenges of our time.
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both deeply troubling and encouraging
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One World Now
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One World Now seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, One World. Singer, often described as the world's most influential philosopher, here addresses such essential concerns as climate change, economic globalization, foreign aid, human rights, immigration, and the responsibility to protect people from genocide and crimes against humanity, whatever country they may be in. Every issue is considered from an ethical perspective.
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Dramatic text read with melodramatic flair
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I wish I could get a refund
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The Life You Can Save
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Good book, but a bad listen
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Altruism
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In Happiness, Matthieu Ricard demonstrated that true happiness is not tied to fleeting moments or sensations, but is an enduring state of soul rooted in mindfulness and compassion for others. Now he turns his lens from the personal to the global, with a rousing argument that altruism - genuine concern for the well-being of others - could be the saving grace of the 21st century. It is, he believes, the vital thread that can answer the main challenges of our time.
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both deeply troubling and encouraging
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- Shii Kaina
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Absolutely Heart Expanding and Inspiring!
For all of us seeking to live in harmony with the planet with as little negative impact and maximum positive impact possible- this book is for you. It will get all your wheels turning.
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- J. Fizzle
- 11-24-18
Thought provoking ideas
a practical guide toward Peter Singer's utilitarianism and effective altruism.
unfortunately, narrator's volume fluctuated excessively.
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- Morgan Kerschl
- 10-06-22
Everyone should read this and take it to heart!
All that you can with such little is amazing! You will be fulfilled in giving what you can and following effective altruism.
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- Jose
- 10-06-23
Not much new if you're already an Effective Altruist
There were only a handful of facts and statistics that stood out to me. I'm already a fan if EA, so I guess it's bot intended for me.
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- Akadia Elie-Michel
- 11-13-23
A great reference
A philosopher of our time tackling important questions of our era and diving deeper into the ethical consideration. Adding animal welfare, medicine and more to help make the best decisions for the greater good
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