March, 2006

Coming Monday: Wiliam Easterly on Foreign Aid

Tune in Monday for the launch of the April edition of Cato Unbound: “What Can Foreign Aid Do For the World’s Poor? ”
William Easterly, Professor of Economics at New York University and former World Bank economist, will kick off the conversation with an essay based on his new book, White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s [...]

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I’m Back! Response to Schmidtz, Singer, and Hacker

by Tom G. Palmer
The Conversation
March 26th, 2006

Let me begin with a brief apology to my fellow contributors. Because I’ve been traveling through a region of the world where there is real poverty—lots of it—I had almost no chance to check the internet at all. (Combined with the fact that my hosts exploited my presence in a very welcome but [...]

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What About Global Poverty?

by Peter Singer
The Conversation
March 25th, 2006

I should probably be distressed about being unable to pen a vigorous dissent to David Schmidtz, but when he writes “Poverty Matters, But That’s Not Inequality,” I can only applaud. It’s what I’ve said myself in One World, discussing whether trade liberalization has been bad for the poor. Showing that the WTO trading [...]

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Poverty Matters, But That’s Not Inequality

by David Schmidtz
The Conversation
March 24th, 2006

1. I have personally asked Edward Wolff, in a quasi-public setting (the workshop session on his contribution to the 2002 Social Philosophy and Policy volume on differences in wealth and income), whether he had any response to the Boskin report, given that Wolff uses the very measures that Boskin repudiates. Wolff’s response was [...]

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