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Transcript: What’s wrong with effective altruism? With Martin Sandbu
This is an audio transcript of the The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes podcast episode: ‘What’s wrong with effective altruism? With Martin Sandbu’ Soumaya Keynes The effective altruism movement has ...