🌍 Effective Altruism

A rigorous, sometimes provocative movement asking how we can do the most good with limited resources. These books blend moral philosophy with empirical reasoning to rethink charity, career choices, and global priorities.

Strangers Drowning

by Larissa MacFarquhar • 2015

They give kidneys and fortunes to strangers. Why their goodness is more unsettling than inspiring.

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🤲 Extreme Altruism ⚖️ Moral Demandingness 🧠 Moral Psychology 🐾 Animal Rights 🧶 Codependency

Strangers Drowning

They give kidneys and fortunes to strangers. Why their goodness is more unsettling than inspiring.

by Larissa MacFarquhar 2015

3.91

3k+ ratings

🤲 Extreme Altruism ⚖️ Moral Demandingness 🧠 Moral Psychology 🐾 Animal Rights 🧶 Codependency

How to Create a Vegan World

by Tobias Leenaert • 2017

Purism may hold animal advocacy back. The strategic case for welcoming reducers, not just converts.

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🐮 Animal Advocacy 🗺️ Movement Strategy 🔧 Pragmatic Activism 🔄 Behavior Change 🏗️ Choice Architecture

How to Create a Vegan World

Purism may hold animal advocacy back. The strategic case for welcoming reducers, not just converts.

by Tobias Leenaert 2017

4.36

1k+ ratings

🐮 Animal Advocacy 🗺️ Movement Strategy 🔧 Pragmatic Activism 🔄 Behavior Change 🏗️ Choice Architecture

The End of Animal Farming

by Jacy Reese Anthis • 2018

Ending factory farming depends less on your diet than on what happens in labs and boardrooms.

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🧪 Food Technology 🐄 Animal Agriculture 🔵 Moral Circle Expansion 🐾 Animal Consciousness 🏢 Corporate Campaigns

The End of Animal Farming

Ending factory farming depends less on your diet than on what happens in labs and boardrooms.

by Jacy Reese Anthis 2018

4.07

529 ratings

🧪 Food Technology 🐄 Animal Agriculture 🔵 Moral Circle Expansion 🐾 Animal Consciousness 🏢 Corporate Campaigns

Longpath

by Ari Wallach • 2022

Your brain was built for the next five minutes. Civilization needs you to think in centuries.

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🧭 Futures Thinking 🌍 Intergenerational Ethics 🔄 Systems Thinking 🤝 Prosocial Behavior 🗺️ Scenario Planning

Longpath

Your brain was built for the next five minutes. Civilization needs you to think in centuries.

by Ari Wallach 2022

3.74

323 ratings

🧭 Futures Thinking 🌍 Intergenerational Ethics 🔄 Systems Thinking 🤝 Prosocial Behavior 🗺️ Scenario Planning

How to Think Like Bill Gates

by Daniel Smith • 2015

Deploy the Gates analytical method: it built Microsoft, and now it fights malaria.

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🧑‍💻 Tech Entrepreneurship 💰 Billionaire Biographies 🏢 Corporate Leadership 🧠 Founder Thinking 📊 Data-Driven Thinking

How to Think Like Bill Gates

Deploy the Gates analytical method: it built Microsoft, and now it fights malaria.

by Daniel Smith 2015

3.69

275 ratings

🧑‍💻 Tech Entrepreneurship 💰 Billionaire Biographies 🏢 Corporate Leadership 🧠 Founder Thinking 📊 Data-Driven Thinking

Better, Not Perfect

by Max H. Bazerman • 2020

Most ethics advice demands sainthood. This one demands your next decision be slightly better.

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🧪 Behavioral Ethics 🧠 Cognitive Biases 💡 Value Creation 🏢 Business Ethics 🎁 Charitable Giving

Better, Not Perfect

Most ethics advice demands sainthood. This one demands your next decision be slightly better.

by Max H. Bazerman 2020

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159 ratings

🧪 Behavioral Ethics 🧠 Cognitive Biases 💡 Value Creation 🏢 Business Ethics 🎁 Charitable Giving

How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

by Bill Gates • 2022

Most of COVID's suffering was avoidable. The blueprint to ensure nothing like it happens again.

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🌍 Global Health 🦠 Pandemic Preparedness 🏛️ Public Health Policy 🧫 Infectious Disease 💉 Vaccine Development

How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

Most of COVID's suffering was avoidable. The blueprint to ensure nothing like it happens again.

by Bill Gates 2022

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2k+ ratings

🌍 Global Health 🦠 Pandemic Preparedness 🏛️ Public Health Policy 🧫 Infectious Disease 💉 Vaccine Development

Discover Your Inner Economist

by Tyler Cowen • 2007

Hidden economics of love, lunch, and looking good: incentives that work when cash fails.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 🛒 Everyday Economics 🕊️ Signaling Theory 🎭 Self-Deception ⏳ Attention Scarcity

Discover Your Inner Economist

Hidden economics of love, lunch, and looking good: incentives that work when cash fails.

by Tyler Cowen 2007

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2k+ ratings

🧠 Behavioral Economics 🛒 Everyday Economics 🕊️ Signaling Theory 🎭 Self-Deception ⏳ Attention Scarcity

How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place

by Bjørn Lomborg • 2006

Climate change or malaria? Economists priced both; the returns were not what anyone assumed.

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⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis 🌍 International Development 🏥 Global Health 🌡️ Climate Economics 📦 Trade Policy

How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place

Climate change or malaria? Economists priced both; the returns were not what anyone assumed.

by Bjørn Lomborg 2006

3.38

156 ratings

⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis 🌍 International Development 🏥 Global Health 🌡️ Climate Economics 📦 Trade Policy

Giving Done Right

by Phil Buchanan • 2019

Nonprofits are not businesses. The distinct set of skills that effective giving actually requires.

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🎯 Strategic Philanthropy 🏢 Nonprofit Management 📊 Impact Measurement 💰 Donor Advice 🌟 New Philanthropists

Giving Done Right

Nonprofits are not businesses. The distinct set of skills that effective giving actually requires.

by Phil Buchanan 2019

3.85

146 ratings

🎯 Strategic Philanthropy 🏢 Nonprofit Management 📊 Impact Measurement 💰 Donor Advice 🌟 New Philanthropists

40 Chances

by Howard G. Buffett • 2013

Forty planting seasons. What a farmer learned about why food aid fails and what actually works.

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🌍 International Development 🌾 Sustainable Agriculture 🏞️ Soil Conservation 📜 Land Rights 🛒 Market-Based Aid

40 Chances

Forty planting seasons. What a farmer learned about why food aid fails and what actually works.

by Howard G. Buffett 2013

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843 ratings

🌍 International Development 🌾 Sustainable Agriculture 🏞️ Soil Conservation 📜 Land Rights 🛒 Market-Based Aid

Give Smart

by Thomas J. Tierney • 2011

Philanthropy has no market feedback. Here is the accountability framework that replaces it.

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🎯 Strategic Philanthropy 🏛️ Foundation Management 🔗 Theory Of Change 📏 Impact Measurement 💰 Grantmaking

Give Smart

Philanthropy has no market feedback. Here is the accountability framework that replaces it.

by Thomas J. Tierney 2011

3.59

249 ratings

🎯 Strategic Philanthropy 🏛️ Foundation Management 🔗 Theory Of Change 📏 Impact Measurement 💰 Grantmaking

The Fear Factor

by Abigail Marsh • 2017

Heroes and psychopaths: separated by how one brain region processes fear.

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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🫂 Empathy Research 🎭 Psychopathy 🤝 Prosocial Behavior

The Fear Factor

Heroes and psychopaths: separated by how one brain region processes fear.

by Abigail Marsh 2017

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540 ratings

🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🫂 Empathy Research 🎭 Psychopathy 🤝 Prosocial Behavior

Meat

by Bruce Friedrich • 2025

Nine calories of grain yield one of chicken. The technology that can break that math.

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🌾 Future Of Food 🍔 Alternative Protein 🔬 Cellular Agriculture 🛡️ Food Security 🌍 Climate Mitigation

Meat

Nine calories of grain yield one of chicken. The technology that can break that math.

by Bruce Friedrich 2025

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126 ratings

🌾 Future Of Food 🍔 Alternative Protein 🔬 Cellular Agriculture 🛡️ Food Security 🌍 Climate Mitigation

The Progress Paradox

by Gregg Easterbrook • 2003

Incomes doubled, lifespans nearly did too, and depression rose tenfold. What the progress missed.

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📊 Happiness Economics 🔄 Hedonic Adaptation 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 📉 Negativity Bias 🛒 Choice Overload

The Progress Paradox

Incomes doubled, lifespans nearly did too, and depression rose tenfold. What the progress missed.

by Gregg Easterbrook 2003

3.63

794 ratings

📊 Happiness Economics 🔄 Hedonic Adaptation 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 📉 Negativity Bias 🛒 Choice Overload

Billions of Drops in Millions of Buckets

by Steven H. Goldberg • 2009

Philanthropy's defect: donations scatter, nothing scales. The fix looks like a stock market.

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🏢 Nonprofit Management 🌱 Social Entrepreneurship 💸 Venture Philanthropy 📊 Impact Measurement 🎯 Prediction Markets

Billions of Drops in Millions of Buckets

Philanthropy's defect: donations scatter, nothing scales. The fix looks like a stock market.

by Steven H. Goldberg 2009

3.41

22 ratings

🏢 Nonprofit Management 🌱 Social Entrepreneurship 💸 Venture Philanthropy 📊 Impact Measurement 🎯 Prediction Markets

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