Is Charity for the Poor Futile?
takes issue with 15 leading economists who recently argued that it fails to address poverty's root causes.
Peter Singer
Peter Singer is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, Laureate Professor in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, and founder of the non-profit organization The Life You Can Save. His books include Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason), Rethinking Life and Death, The Point of View of the Universe, co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, The Most Good You Can Do, Famine, Affluence, and Morality, One World Now, Ethics in the Real World, and Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction, also with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek. In 2013, he was named the world's third "most influential contemporary thinker" by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute.
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The Migration Dilemma
argues that the last three years have revealed the limits of rights once proclaimed to be inviolable.
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Why Loving Our Animals Is Not Enough
worry that most people don't know as much they should about their household companions.
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Is Marx Still Relevant?
asks what remains of the thinker's intellectual legacy on the 200th anniversary of his birth.
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Crime and No Punishment for the Iraq War
makes the case that US and UK officials launched an illegal war of aggression in 2003.
