Description: The charitable sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the global economy. Nearly half of the more than 85,000 private foundations in the United States have come into being since the year 2000. Just under 5,000 more were established in 2011 alone. This deluge of philanthropy has helped create a world where billionaires wield more power over education policy, global agriculture, and global health than ever before. In No Such Thing as a Free Gift, author and academic Linsey McGoey puts this new golden age of philanthropy under the microscope-paying particular attention to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. As large charitable organizations replace governments as the providers of social welfare, their largesse becomes suspect. The businesses fronting the money often create the very economic instability and inequality the foundations are purported to solve. We are entering an age when the ideals of social justice are dependent on the strained rectitude and questionable generosity of the mega-rich.
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EAN: 9781784786236
UPC: 9781784786236
ISBN: 9781784786236
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Book Title: No Such Thing As a Free Gift : the Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Verso Books
Topic: Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Philanthropy & Charity, Public Policy / Social Policy
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2016
Genre: Political Science, Social Science
Item Weight: 9.6 Oz
Author: Linsey Mcgoey
Item Length: 7.8 in
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
