The books draw examples from the many years the authors have spent promoting better philanthropy, and are all worth reading.

ECONOMIST: The lessons of philanthropy: Giving for results | The

That would give climate researchers time to refine their predictions while governments concentrate on doing some (relatively) easy things worth doing for their own sake, such as promoting fuel efficiency.

ECONOMIST: For Kyoto, a modest proposal | The

He left Microsoft worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and turned his talents to promoting innovation (as well as funding dinosaur excavations).

ECONOMIST: A new intellectual-property business model