Comments on: How To End Poverty http://jonathanstray.com/how-to-end-poverty Information, Culture, and Belief Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:34:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Starchy http://jonathanstray.com/how-to-end-poverty/comment-page-1#comment-169 Starchy Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:59:27 +0000 http://jonathanstray.com/?p=153#comment-169 Two points of clarification: http://www.endpoverty2015.org/ also appears to be directly connected to Sachs, and very little of what he talks about in the top links has much to do with economics directly. Two points of clarification: http://www.endpoverty2015.org/ also appears to be directly connected to Sachs, and very little of what he talks about in the top links has much to do with economics directly.

]]> By: Starchy http://jonathanstray.com/how-to-end-poverty/comment-page-1#comment-168 Starchy Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:54:09 +0000 http://jonathanstray.com/?p=153#comment-168 Well, it certainly turns up some of the most <i>popular</i> thoughts very quickly -- I hope there's some good overlap there with the best ideas and most carefully argued opinions. It's also worth noting that the fact that we're A. searching in English and B. searching online will lend a hand to primarily free-market based ideas (NB four of the top five results are by or about Jeffrey Sachs, and the other focuses on removing free trade barriers to Africa). I like the looks of http://www.endpoverty2015.org/, the first result that isn't obviously in lockstep, which shows up at the top of page two. In other words, do search, but also be sure to dig a little when you get the results. Popularity with Google != consensus. Well, it certainly turns up some of the most popular thoughts very quickly — I hope there’s some good overlap there with the best ideas and most carefully argued opinions. It’s also worth noting that the fact that we’re A. searching in English and B. searching online will lend a hand to primarily free-market based ideas (NB four of the top five results are by or about Jeffrey Sachs, and the other focuses on removing free trade barriers to Africa). I like the looks of http://www.endpoverty2015.org/, the first result that isn’t obviously in lockstep, which shows up at the top of page two.

In other words, do search, but also be sure to dig a little when you get the results. Popularity with Google != consensus.

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