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    Miguel Antonio Barretto García
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    The document discusses the potential role of volunteers, particularly young volunteers, in addressing challenges in development economics, political economy, and institutional economics. It notes that current approaches often treat symptoms rather than roots of problems. Volunteers are suggested as a resource that could help enact small effects with big changes through creative technology, building durable social capital, and leveraging a malleable moral resource, especially for young volunteers. While there are no silver bullets, the document argues that volunteers can help target roots rather than symptoms of social issues.

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    Volunteer Economics?: Miguel A. B. Garcia

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    Miguel Antonio Barretto García
    The document discusses the potential role of volunteers, particularly young volunteers, in addressing challenges in development economics, political economy, and institutional economics. It notes that current approaches often treat symptoms rather than roots of problems. Volunteers are suggested as a resource that could help enact small effects with big changes through creative technology, building durable social capital, and leveraging a malleable moral resource, especially for young volunteers. While there are no silver bullets, the document argues that volunteers can help target roots rather than symptoms of social issues.

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    Volunteer Economics?

    Miguel A. B. Garcia
    Department of Economics University of San Carlos

    The Whys
    Development Economics Why are some countries rich and others (most) are poor?

    Political Economy Why are there only few good leaders? Institutional Economics Why weak institutions remain unfixed?

    Volunteer Economics?
    Development Economics

    Institutional Economics

    Political Economics

    Status Quo: Curing symptom or root?


    Foreign Aid Stop-gap measures, e.g. food subsidies, CCTs, contraceptives Good governance K+12 education reform Millennium Development Goals World Bank, UN, USAID

    Poor Economics: Lessons


    Uncertainty, asymmetric information, false beliefs Overwhelming responsibility vs. limited cognition Missing markets and innovation Three Is: ignorance, ideology, and inertia Expectations trap

    The Whats
    What do volunteers have? Moral resource and social capital

    What can volunteers possibly do? Small effects with big changes
    What volunteers shouldnt do? Big thinkers but small doers

    Young Volunteers
    Creative technology Durable and investable social capital Malleable moral resource

    Some afterthoughts
    Volunteers matter Addendum: [Young] Volunteers matter [even more] No silver bullet to social problems Never about the big things Roots, not symptoms

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