cam a22 4 4500 375267719 CHVBK 20201023205622.0 161118s2015 xxk b||| 001 0 eng| 2015027995 978-1-78478-083-8 (hardback) 1-78478-083-9 (hardback) 978-1-78478-623-6 (paperback) 40025372693 (IDSBB)006488659 (NEBIS)010558681 (RERO)R008736535 (OCoLC)900913015 (OCoLC)930684716 DLC ger DLC YDXCP BTCTA BDX CDX UOK OCLCF YUS OCLCQ GZM S3O RCJ SzZuIDS BS/BE A125 rda HV97.B5 M34 2015 s1ss rero 361.7/632 23 330 15 361.7 23 SOC033000 SOC042000 SOC045000 bisacsh QX 905 rvk MS 1360 rvk McGoey Linsey (DE-588)102244185X Verfasser aut No such thing as a free gift the Gates foundation and the price of philanthropy Linsey McGoey London Verso [2015] 296 Seiten Includes bibliographical references and index Big men -- TED heads -- Mandeville's bastards -- Pintsized profit-makers -- God's work -- Forgive them, Bastiat -- Always Coca-Cola -- Conclusion The selfish gift "Philanthro-capitalism: How charity became big business. 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. Charities link the farmers in Africa to the boardrooms of corporate foundations and the corridors of the World Economic Forum at Davos. Far from being selfless, plutocratic philanthropy may be the ultimate profit-making tool. 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"-- Gates, Bill 1955- fast Gates, Bill 1955- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation fast Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (DE-588)6516346-1 gnd Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wohltätigkeit (DE-588)4190155-1 gnd Souveränität (DE-588)4132367-1 gnd Philanthropie (DE-588)4174264-3 gnd Kritik (DE-588)4033229-9 gnd SOCIAL SCIENCE Philanthropy & Charity bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE Developing Countries bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE Poverty & Homelessness bisacsh Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations fast Charities fast Corporations fast Social control fast Välgörenhet sao Bolag sao Social kontroll sao Corporations United States Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations United States Soziale Probleme (DE-588)4139770-8 gnd Social control United States Humanitäre Hilfe (DE-588)4438965-6 gnd Charities United States Charities organization & administration (DNLM)D002608Q000458 Ethics, Business history (DNLM)D040861Q000266 Social Control, Formal (DNLM)D012926 Altruism (DNLM)D000533 United States fast USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 Metadata rights reserved rero zbzmon201606l stad zbzswk201606g stet idszbz Z2 UMHIZ-201601 nebis EN wi SzZuIDS BS/BE IDSBB A125 A125 125F1 UBW_QX_905 3 IDSBB B583 B583 MAG IMG H G611 NELB5831611 Paperback edition 2016 IDSBB A373 A373 PR CEPS 284 IDSBB 100 1- McGoey Linsey (DE-588)102244185X Verfasser aut NEBIS 100 1- McGoey Linsey (DE-588)102244185X Verfasser aut RERO 100 1- McGoey Linsey (IDREF)193742594 cre NEBIS ZAD50 https://opac.nebis.ch/objects/pdf03/z01_978-1-78478-083-8_01.pdf Titelblatt und Inhaltsverzeichnis VIEW pdf IDSBB DSV51 DSV01 A100 http://www.ub.unibas.ch/tox/IDSBB/006488659/PDF pdf VIEW Inhaltsverzeichnis SWISSBIB 358004713