Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better
Rob Reich
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Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better
Rob Reich
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Some of the material here was published previously in journal articles and book chapters, but Reich reworks the information to appeal to nonscholars, hoping they will put more thought into theories of philanthropy.
As a faculty member at a well-endowed university, Mr. Reich is understandably reluctant to conclude that philanthropy has no place in a well-run democracy. Thus he urges a change in the operating rules that government creates for it.
Surveying philanthropy from ancient Athens to the modern-day Rockefeller Foundation, and political philosophers from John Stuart Mill to John Rawls, Stanford political science professor Reich...mounts a wide-ranging critique of charity and the government preferments that subsidize it.