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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Bibliography of EA writings about fields and movements of interest to EA, published by Pablo on February 21, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Years ago, I compiled a list of writings by members of the EA community focused on fields or movements of interest to EA. The list seems to have spread organically and every couple of months someone messages me with comments or questions about it. Although the list is probably incomplete, it seems sufficiently comprehensive to justify publication on the EA Forum. Please let me know, by contacting me or leaving a comment, if you notice any omissions. I'd also like to single out some fields and movements that I believe would be useful to investigate but have so far received little or no EA attention. These are included as an Appendix to the post. The list American geriatrics Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth Animal rights movement Clifton (2016) Lessons from the history of animal rights Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth Antislavery movement Animal Charity Evaluators (2018) The British antislavery movement and the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 Anthis & Anthis (2017) Social movement lessons from the British antislavery movement Mauricio (2020) What helped the voiceless? Historical case studies Behavioral economics Stafforini (2018) Behavioral economics Bioethics Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth Children's rights Animal Charity Evaluators (2018) Children's rights Christianity Vallinder (2018) The rise of early Christianity Confucianism Vallinder (2018) Confucius vs Mozi Conservative legal movement Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth Cryonics Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth Environmentalism Animal Charity Evaluators (2018) Environmentalism Carlsmith (2018) What can the existential risk community learn from environmentalism? Mauricio (2020) What helped the voiceless? Historical case studies Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth Evidence-based medicine Hadshar (2018) Evidence-based medicine Fabianism Alexander (2018) Book review: History of the Fabian Society Fat acceptance movement Lueke (2018) Fat activism General semantics Sempere (2019) Why do social movements fail: Two concrete examples Mohism Vallinder (2018) Confucius vs Mozi Molecular nanotechnology Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth Neoliberalism Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth Vaughan (2016) What the EA community can learn from the rise of the neoliberals New atheism Alexander (2017) How did new atheism fail so miserably? Rationalist movement Evans (2021) The Rationalists of the 1950s (and before) also called themselves “Rationalists” Scientific charity movement Kaufman (2016) Scientific charity movement Spanish Enlightenment Sempere (2019) Why do social movements fail: Two concrete examples Appendix Some fields and movements EAs may want to study more: Anti-nuclear movement Civil rights movement Cognitive revolution Communism Evolutionary psychology Experimental philosophy Life extension Open-source software movement Philosophical radicals Positivism Technocracy movement Women rights movement Zionism See also this list by Luke Muehlhauser. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.