http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2004/12/aids_population_1.html This is my response to the Becker posting on "Disease, Population, and "Wellbeing." A recent international conference of economists (“Copenhagen Consensus 2004”) tried to determine the best uses for the monies that international organizations and wealthy nations donate to poor... en-us http://www.intheagora.com/archives/2005/02/okay_so_we_prob.html Foreign Policy argues that even when you take U.S. private giving into account, the U.S. is still comparatively stingy when ranked next to the rest of the world in terms of its foreign giving. For example, the United States provided... http://www.bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.php/2005/01/09/foreign_aid Posner makes some good arguments against foreign aid, but his implication that the U.S. should do nothing to make AIDS treatments available to backward countries is misleading. Much of the cost of the treatments is the R and D cost of designing the dru... http://citycomfortsblog.typepad.com/cities/2004/12/the_beckerposne.html Does anyone else find the format at Becker-Posner -- in which most recent comments are at the top -- to be maddeningly awkward and annoying? In fact it stops me from bothering with what looks like some fascinating reading. http://illusionfree.com/weblog/index.php/no_illusions/niperm/20041230_becker_posner/ This week Gary Becker and Richard Posner address disease, population growth and progress. The catalyst is the AIDS epidemic, particularly in Africa. The big questions include: Is population growth good or bad per se? How effective can foreign aid be, i... http://www.intheagora.com/archives/2004/12/stingy_american_1.html The New York Times reports that the UN official who reportedly said the U.S. and other countries were being "stingy" in their giving to the victims of the tsunami says that he's been misquoted, and that he was really referring... http://www.beberlei.de/blog/archives/2004/12/29/aids-bevolkerungwachstum/ Becker und Posner, amerikanischer Ă–konom und amerikanischer Jurist, haben diese Woche "AIDS und Bevölkerungswachstum" zu ihren Thema gemacht. Beide haben wie gehabt zwei völlig unterschiedlichie Standpunkte zum Problem des Bevölkerungswachstums i... http://www.pejmanesque.com/archives/008934.html The Becker-Posner blog has decided to take on the issues of disease, population growth and their commensurate effects on economic progress around the world. This week, Gary Becker began the colloquy, and his position is outlined below: Malthusian theor...