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Title: No Such Thing as a Free Gift
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy
Author: Linsey McGoey
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1784786233
EAN: 9781784786236
ISBN: 9781784786236
Publisher: Verso Books
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences, Law & Politics
Release Date: 04/10/2016
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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 22mm
Item Weight: 326g
Release Year: 2016

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