No Such Thing as a Free Gift

No Such Thing as a Free Gift The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy

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Publisher's Synopsis

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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Verso

Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year.

Book information

ISBN: 9781784786236
Publisher: Verso
Imprint: Verso
Pub date:
DEWEY: 361.7632
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 296
Weight: 268g
Height: 130mm
Width: 198mm
Spine width: 25mm