Years ago, I compiled a list of writings by members of the EA community focused on fields and movements of interest to EA. The list seems to have spread organically and every couple of months someone messages me with comments or questions about it. Although the list is probably incomplete, it seems sufficiently comprehensive to justify publication on the EA Forum. Please let me know, by contacting me or leaving a comment, if you notice any omissions.
An Appendix to the post highlights some fields and movements that might be useful to investigate but have so far received little or no EA attention.
Bibliography of EA writings about fields and movements of interest to EA
Latest update: 22 April 2024
Years ago, I compiled a list of writings by members of the EA community focused on fields and movements of interest to EA. The list seems to have spread organically and every couple of months someone messages me with comments or questions about it. Although the list is probably incomplete, it seems sufficiently comprehensive to justify publication on the EA Forum. Please let me know, by contacting me or leaving a comment, if you notice any omissions.
An Appendix to the post highlights some fields and movements that might be useful to investigate but have so far received little or no EA attention.
The list
American geriatrics
Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth
Animal rights movement
Clifton (2016) Lessons from the history of animal rights
Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth
Anti-abortion movement
Harris (2019) Social movement lessons from the US anti-abortion movement
Anti-death-penalty movement
Harris (2020) Social movement lessons from the US anti-death penalty movement
Anti-nuclear movement
Mohorčich (2017) What can nuclear power teach us about the institutional adoption of clean meat?
Antislavery movement
Animal Charity Evaluators (2018) The British antislavery movement and the abolition of the slave trade in 1807
Anthis & Anthis (2017) Social movement lessons from the British antislavery movement
Mauricio (2020) What helped the voiceless? Historical case studies
Behavioral economics
Stafforini (2018) Behavioral economics
Bioethics
Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth
Children’s rights
Animal Charity Evaluators (2018) Children’s rights
Christianity
Vallinder (2018) The rise of early Christianity
Confucianism
Vallinder (2018) Confucius vs Mozi
Conservative legal movement
Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth
Cryonics
Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth
Effective philanthropy
Cold Button Issues (2022) Before there was effective altruism, there was effective philanthropy
Environmentalism
Animal Charity Evaluators (2018) Environmentalism
Carlsmith (2018) What can the existential risk community learn from environmentalism?
Mauricio (2020) What helped the voiceless? Historical case studies
Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth
Evidence-based medicine
Hadshar (2018) Evidence-based medicine
Fabianism
Alexander (2018) Book review: History of the Fabian Society
Fair trade
Harris (2021) Social movement lessons from the fair trade movement
Fat acceptance movement
Lueke (2018) Fat activism
General semantics
Sempere (2019) Why do social movements fail: Two concrete examples
Marriage equality
Soskis (2018) Philanthropy’s role in the fight for marriage equality: A literature review and historical investigation for the Open Philanthropy Project
Mohism
Vallinder (2018) Confucius vs Mozi
Molecular nanotechnology
Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth
Neoliberalism
Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth
Vaughan (2016) What the EA community can learn from the rise of the neoliberals
New atheism
Alexander (2017) How did new atheism fail so miserably?
Prisoner human rights movement
Harris (2020) Social movement lessons from the US prisoners’ rights movement
Rationalist movement
Evans (2021) The Rationalists of the 1950s (and before) also called themselves “Rationalists”
Scientific charity movement
Kaufman (2016) Scientific charity movement
Spanish Enlightenment
Sempere (2019) Why do social movements fail: Two concrete examples
Appendix
Some fields and movements EAs may want to study more:
Chartism
Civil rights movement
Cognitive revolution
Communism
The Cypherpunks
Efficiency movement
Evolutionary psychology
Experimental philosophy
FIRE movement[1]
Georgism
Global justice movement
Life extension
Marxism
Objectivism
Open science (esp. open access and open source)
Operations Research[2]
Philosophical radicals
Positivism
Technocracy movement
Temperance movement
Utopian socialism
Women rights movement
World federalism
Zionism
See also this list by Luke Muehlhauser.
See this comment by Tyner for an explanation of why this movement may be worth studying.
See this post by wesg for some background.