{"id":183,"date":"2007-02-24T20:58:15","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T04:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/02\/24\/charity-and-ideology\/"},"modified":"2015-10-08T18:51:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T02:51:45","slug":"charity-and-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/02\/24\/charity-and-ideology\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity and ideology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A story (not online) in a recent issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertymagazine.org\/\">Liberty Magazine<\/a> reports that research by Arthur C. Brooks shows that people who favor government spending on poverty programs give less to charity than those who don&#8217;t support such spending.<br \/>\nIf that were only true for monetary donations, there would be a number of plausible questions that could be raised. But Brooks gets around those by showing that it is also true of blood donations.<br \/>\nBrooks&#8217; findings should not be used to justify any particular ideology, since a willingness to act charitably doesn&#8217;t necessarily correlate with an understanding of the effects of political policies. It might be interesting to know if a willingness to act charitably correlates with more careful education concerning the effects of political policies, but that would be hard to objectively measure. Brooks&#8217; findings should be used only to discredit people who claim that there&#8217;s a simple way to determine that advocates of a welfare state are more compassionate than advocates of smaller government.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthurbrooks.net\/excerpt.html\">Here is an excerpt<\/a> from Brooks&#8217; book, and other reports on his research are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taemag.com\/issues\/articleid.19041\/article_detail.asp\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/philanthropy.com\/free\/articles\/v19\/i04\/04001101.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story (not online) in a recent issue of Liberty Magazine reports that research by Arthur C. Brooks shows that people who favor government spending on poverty programs give less to charity than those who don&#8217;t support such spending. If that were only true for monetary donations, there would be a number of plausible questions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-bias"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p80O1l-2X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}