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Topic archive: Global priorities research
Governments, foundations and individuals spend large amounts of money on efforts to improve the world. However, there is currently little research to guide them on what priorities they should focus on at the highest level.
Global priorities research applies techniques from economics, maths, and social science to help organisations choose which global problems they should spend their limited resources on, in order to improve the world as much as possible.
Selected highlights
#16 – Michelle Hutchinson hopes to shape the world by shaping the ideas of intellectuals. Will global priorities research succeed?
Podcast by Robert Wiblin, Michelle Hutchinson and Keiran Harris · Published December 22nd, 2017
#37 – Finding the best charity requires estimating the unknowable. Here’s how GiveWell tries to do that, according to researcher James Snowden.
Podcast by Robert Wiblin and Keiran Harris · Published July 16th, 2018
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