http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/02/the-giving-carnival-edition-three-topic Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:19:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/02/the-giving-carnival-edition-three-topic#comment-79 Kevin Jones Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:18:03 +0000 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/02/14/the-giving-carnival-edition-three-topic/#comment-79 oops the url is this one. the other is to a definition of wicked problems. http://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Nations-Books-Changed-World/dp/0871139499/sr=8-1/qid=1172012123/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-1631884-3670347?ie=UTF8&s=books oops the url is this one. the other is to a definition of wicked problems. http://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Nations-Books-Changed-World/dp/0871139499/sr=8-1/qid=1172012123/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-1631884-3670347?ie=UTF8&s=books

]]> http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/02/the-giving-carnival-edition-three-topic#comment-78 Kevin Jones Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:16:20 +0000 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/02/14/the-giving-carnival-edition-three-topic/#comment-78 I think P.J.O'Rourke's new book reinterpreting Adam Smith should be on the must read list. I find venture philanthropist types willing to look at their two pocket thinking (investing is one pocket, philanthropy the second and never the twain shall meet) willing to reconsider their resuppositions these days. O'Rourke recaptures some of Smith's message that got lost beneath market fundamentalism, kind of like the research on cooperation by Darwin got buried by social Darwinists but is now coming to light. http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/caron/collab/wicked.html I think P.J.O’Rourke’s new book reinterpreting Adam Smith should be on the must read list. I find venture philanthropist types willing to look at their two pocket thinking (investing is one pocket, philanthropy the second and never the twain shall meet) willing to reconsider their resuppositions these days. O’Rourke recaptures some of Smith’s message that got lost beneath market fundamentalism, kind of like the research on cooperation by Darwin got buried by social Darwinists but is now coming to light.
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/caron/collab/wicked.html

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