The price of humanity

how philanthropy went wrong and how to fix it
Amy Schiller
Book - 2023

A journalist, academic and consultant evaluates the history of philanthropy, from the ideas of St. Augustine to the work of Lebron James, arguing that philanthropy can no longer be premised around basic survival and that public institutions must assume that burden so that philanthropy can support human flourishing as originally intended.

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Main Author: Schiller, Amy (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn : Melville House, 2023
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505 0 |a St. Augustine to Bill and Melinda Gates -- Gift receipts, return policies, and term sheets: how giving became shopping -- The anti-humans of effective altruism -- Andrew Carnegie to Mackenzie Scott -- Cathedrals of lives? -- Bread and roses, taxes and symphonies -- Jane Addams and Lebron James -- How to fix it -- A world fit for humanity -- Acknowledgments -- Endnotes -- Index. 
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