Its core methodology, of figuring out and then doing the thing that does the “most good” isn’t all that effective, considering the fact that the greatest poverty alleviation and life improvement we’ve seen in the past fifty years have come from economic growth and development.
Someone else can respond better than me but EAs work on a lot of economic growth stuff I think. Though our failure to make this comprehensible to outsiders with a forum page called “EA economic growth projects” is a genuine failure. I wish we had a collaborativesummary.
Some suggested work:
Open Philanthropy funded a load of work on countries loosening fiscal polisy which has, I think had 10s − 100s billions impact on national budgets
I’m sure someone is looking at economic growth
More broadly, economic growth is a hard, problem. Many people are working on it. I think it was good that initially EAs assumed that wasn’t where they could add a lot more than was already present. As EA has grown, my sense is that’s not the case.
(I know Rohit personally)
Someone else can respond better than me but EAs work on a lot of economic growth stuff I think. Though our failure to make this comprehensible to outsiders with a forum page called “EA economic growth projects” is a genuine failure. I wish we had a collaborative summary.
Some suggested work:
Open Philanthropy funded a load of work on countries loosening fiscal polisy which has, I think had 10s − 100s billions impact on national budgets
I’m sure someone is looking at economic growth
More broadly, economic growth is a hard, problem. Many people are working on it. I think it was good that initially EAs assumed that wasn’t where they could add a lot more than was already present. As EA has grown, my sense is that’s not the case.
I really wish my comments could float beside the text.