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The nonprofit sector in China (including nongovernmental
organizations, foundations, and charities) is fairly new,
especially to foreigners, since the rapid development of this
"third sector" has not been widely studied in Western scholarship.
The contributors to this volume have been engaged in research of
China's nonprofit sector for many years, and are intimately
familiar with the operation of Chinese nonprofit organizations.
China's Nonprofit Sector describes the development of China's
nonprofit sector since 1995, including discussions on the rise of
corporate responsibility and charitable foundations, grassroots
organizations, and the microphilanthropy that arose after the
Sichuan earthquake in 2008. It enumerates the shifting legal
framework, the complex relationship between government-affiliated
and private sector organizations, the media's role, the emergence
of microphilanthropy, and the lack of knowledge of the general
public regarding philanthropic enterprises. This volume, in
Transaction's Asian Studies series, directly addresses the topic of
China's nonprofit sector and gives a coherent and comprehensive
account of its development and challenges. This work will be of
value for all policy specialists, Asian Studies scholars, and all
individuals interested in China.
The nonprofit sector in China (including nongovernmental
organizations, foundations, and charities) is fairly new,
especially to foreigners, since the rapid development of this
"third sector" has not been widely studied in Western scholarship.
The contributors to this volume have been engaged in research of
China's nonprofit sector for many years, and are intimately
familiar with the operation of Chinese nonprofit organizations.
China's Nonprofit Sector describes the development of China's
nonprofit sector since 1995, including discussions on the rise of
corporate responsibility and charitable foundations, grassroots
organizations, and the microphilanthropy that arose after the
Sichuan earthquake in 2008. It enumerates the shifting legal
framework, the complex relationship between government-affiliated
and private sector organizations, the media's role, the emergence
of microphilanthropy, and the lack of knowledge of the general
public regarding philanthropic enterprises.
This volume, in Transaction's Asian Studies series, directly
addresses the topic of China's nonprofit sector and gives a
coherent and comprehensive account of its development and
challenges. This work will be of value for all policy specialists,
Asian Studies scholars, and all individuals interested in
China.
Volume V in the acclaimed Real Utopias Project series, edited by
Erik Olin Wright. Are there ways that contemporary capitalism can
be rendered a dramatically more egalitarian economic system without
destroying its productivity and capacity for growth? This book
explores two proposals, unconditional basic income and stakeholder
grants, that attempt just that. In a system of basic income, as
elaborated by Philippe van Parijs, all citizens are given a monthly
stipend sufficient to provide them with a no-frills but adequate
standard of living. This monthly income is universal rather than
means-tested, and it is unconditional - receiving the basic income
does not depend upon performing any labor services or satisfying
other conditions. It affirms the idea that as a matter of basic
rights, no one should live in poverty in an affluent society. In a
system of stakeholder grants, as discussed by Bruce Ackerman and
Anne Alstott, all citizens upon reaching the age of early adulthood
receive a substantial one-time lump-sum grant sufficiently large so
that all young adults would be significant wealth holders. Ackerman
and Alstott propose that this grant be in the vicinity of $80,000
and be financed by an annual wealth tax of roughly 2 percent. A
system of stakeholder grants, they argue, "expresses a fundamental
responsibility: every American has an obligation to contribute to a
fair starting point for all."
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