Here’s a link to Wikipedia’s entry on TOMS with links to resources in favor and against TOMS. Here are some of our favorite resources:

ARTICLES

• Buying TOMS Shoes is a Terrible Way to Help Poor People by Amanda Taub (VOX)
• New Studies Should Cool the Warm Glow Surrounding Shoe Donations (The Economist)
• The Economics of TOMS Shoes (The Economist)
• Do in-kind transfers damage local markets? The case of TOMS shoe donations in El Salvador by Bruce Wydick (Journal of Development Effectiveness)
• A Better Feeling for Making the World Better? TOMS’s Tropes and the Buy-One-Give-One Mode by Craig Mattson (Rhetoric Society Quarterly)
• TOMS Shoes and the Spiritual Politics of Neoliberalism by Lucia Hulsether (Religion and Politics)
• Inside the Buy-One Give-One Model by Christopher Marquis & Andrew Park (Stanford Social Innovation Review)
• One for One: Aid Dependency and the TOMS Model by Russell Reed (Harvard Political Review)
• TOMS Sets Out to Sell a Lifestyle Not Just Shoes by Jef Chu (Fast Company)
• Questioning the TOMS Shoes Model for Social Enterprise by Adrianna Herrara (New York Times)

BLOG POSTS

• Do TOMS Shoes Harm Local Shoe Sellers? Tom Murphy (Humanasphere)
• The Limits of Buy-One Give-One by Nathan Rothstein (Stanford Social Innovation Review)
• ‘A Day Without Dignity’ Challenges the International Aid Paradigm by Tom Murphy (PRI)

PODCASTS

• TOMS Shoes: A Closer Look by Amy Costello (Tiny Spark)

SHOWS

• Why “Buy One, Give One” Companies Don’t Help Anyone Adam Ruins Everything

A BIT OF SNARK

This is not a comprehensive list. It’s one that includes resources that we have had the time to review and recommend. If you have others that you would recommend, please Contact Us. We would love to know what else is out there!