DanielLC comments on Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others... - Less Wrong

130 Post author: Yvain 24 December 2010 09:26PM

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Comment author: James_Miller 25 December 2010 01:12:37AM 40 points [-]

I'm going to assign this to my introductory microeconomics students to help them understand opportunity costs.

Comment author: Yvain 25 December 2010 03:12:21AM *  41 points [-]

That sort of terrifies me, but in a good way.

At the risk of tooting my own horn, this essay only incidentally addresses opportunity costs, but I wrote another essay a few years ago in a different style that addresses them more directly: A Modest Proposal