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Podcast: New Books in Public Policy
Episode: Larry S. Temkin, "Being Good in a World of Need" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Description: In a world filled with both enormous wealth and pockets of great devastation, how should the well-off respond to the world's needy?This is the urgent central question of Being Good in a World of Need (Oxford UP, 2024). Larry S. Temkin, one of the world's foremost ethicists, challenges common assumptions about philanthropy, his own prior beliefs, and the dominant philosophical positions of Peter Singer and Effective Altruism. Filled with keen analysis and insightful discussions of philosophy, current events, development economics, history, literature, and age-old wisdom, this book is a thorough and sobering exploration of the complicated ways th...