Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better
by Rob Reich
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Asks what attitude and what policies democracies should have concerning individuals who give money away for public purposes; and argues that the aims of mass giving should be the decentralization of power in the production of public goods, such as the arts, education, and science.Tags
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Interesting discussion of the tension between philanthropy as social benefit and as tax shelter. Makes a case that we don't do as much as we could in the US to prevent abusive uses of philanthropy-as-tax-shelter. Also makes the case that the whole tax-favored status of philanthropy may be unnecessary.
This book is interesting and brought up some arguments about philanthropy that I hadn't thought about. But this book is not good. It is so thick with academese that it's almost impossible to read and get through.
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- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction, Philosophy, Economics
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- 361.709 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Social problems and services Private Charity & Philanthropy Biography; History By Place
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- HV41 .R4346 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Social service. Social work. Charity
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