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No Such Thing as a Free Gift - The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy (Paperback)
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No Such Thing as a Free Gift - The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy (Paperback)
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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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