William MacAskill is an associate professor in philosophy at the University of Oxford and the cofounder of the nonprofit organizations Giving What We Can and 80,000 Hours. These nonprofits have raised more than $400 million in lifetime-pledged donations to charity and have helped spark the effective altruism movement. MacAskill is a contributor to Quartz, the online business magazine of The Atlantic, and he and his organizations have been featured in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and on NPR and in a TEDx Talk. He lives in Oxford, England.
“Beautifully written and extremely smart. Doing Good
Better should be required reading for anyone interested
in making the world better.”—Steven D. Levitt, #1 New
York Times bestselling co-author
of Freakonomics and When to Rob a Bank
“This is the most valuable guide to charitable giving ever
published. Even readers who disagree with MacAskill’s conclusions
about the value of particular charitable donations will make
smarter decisions by learning from his analysis.”—Paul Brest,
co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and
former president, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
"A straightforward guide to help anyone make the largest possible
difference in the lives of others." —Sue Desmond-Hellman, CEO
of the Gates Foundation
"We research hotels and headphones and sushi bars—but not
charities. That is lunacy. And in this powerful and persuasive
book, William MacAskill shows us how much we stand to gain from a
little bit of thoughtfulness: The same donation could do hundreds
of times more good if given to the most effective charities, rather
than the least"—Dan Heath, co-author of the New York
Times bestsellers Made to Stick, Switch,
and Decisive
“Effective altruism—efforts that actually help people rather than
making you feel good or helping you show off—is one of the great
new ideas of the twenty-first century. Doing Good
Better is the definitive guide to this exciting new
movement.”—Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology
at Harvard University and author of The Better Angels of Our
Nature
“Doing Good Better is a superb achievement. This must-read
book will lead people to change their careers, their lives, and the
world, for the better.”—Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor
of Bioethics at Princeton University, author of Animal
Liberation and The Most Good You Can Do
“Doing Good Better is a must-read for anyone with both a heart
and a brain. MacAskill demolishes the lazy myths of
nothing-you-can-do-ism and demonstrates the power of asking the
right questions. This is an important book. It's also surprisingly
fun. Figuring out what really helps people is a challenging
scientific puzzle, and these pages are full of unexpected
twists—enlightening and invigorating.”—Joshua Greene, director of
Harvard's Moral Cognition Lab, author of Moral
Tribes
“Humanity currently spends more money on cigarette ads than on
making sure that we as a species survive this century.
We've got our priorities all wrong, and we need effective altruism
to right them. If you want to make a real difference on
the biggest issues of our time, you need to read Doing
Good Better.”— Jaan Tallinn, cofounder, Skype and Kazaa
“Doing Good Better has rare combination of strikingly original
ideas, effortless clarity of delivery, and a thoroughgoing
practicality that leaves the reader inspired to get out of their
chair and take on the world. Humanity faces some big challenges in
the 21st century; this is a much-needed manifesto for social
change, and Will MacAskill is the ideal ambassador.”—Eric Drexler,
founder of nanotechnology and author of Engines of
Creation
“MacAskill tackles a monumental question: how can we make the
biggest difference for the greatest number of people? His answer is
a grand vision to make giving, volunteering, spending, and working
more worthwhile.”—Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling
author of Give and Take
“Are you interested in giving away money more effectively?
This is the very best book on how to do that.” —Tyler
Cowen, Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George
Mason University and author of Average is Over
“I wish I'd had this structure and insights twenty years
ago!”—Caroline Fiennes, Director, Giving Evidence
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