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Whether and Where to Give
Author(s) -
Pummer Theron
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
philosophy and public affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.388
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1088-4963
pISSN - 0048-3915
DOI - 10.1111/papa.12065
Subject(s) - art history , sociology , theology , classics , philosophy , media studies , art
The ethics of giving has traditionally focused on whether, and how much, to give to charities helping people in extreme poverty. In more recent years, the discussion has increasingly focused on where to give, spurred by an appreciation of the substantial differences in costeffectiveness between charities. According to a commonly cited example, $40,000 can be used either to help one blind person by training a seeing-eye dog in the United States or to help two thousand blind