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The Price Of Humanity : How Philanthropy Went Wrong - And How to Fix It, Hardback Book

The Price Of Humanity : How Philanthropy Went Wrong - And How to Fix It Hardback

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The word 'philanthropy' today makes people think big money - Bill and Melinda Gates, Warren Buffet, and Andrew Carnegie come to mind.

The scope of suffering in the world seems to demand an industry of giving, and yet for all the billions that are dispensed, the wealthy never seem to lose any of their money and nothing seems to change.

Journalist, academic and consultant Amy Schiller shows how we get out of this stalemate by evaluating the history of philanthropy from the ideas of St.

Augustine to the work of Lebron James. She argues philanthropy's contemporary tendency to maintain obscene inequality and reduce every cause to dehumanizing technocratic terms is unacceptable, while maintaining an optimism about the soul and potential of philanthropy in principle.

For philanthropy to get back to its literal roots - the love of humanity - Schiller argues that philanthropy can no longer be premised around basic survival.

Public institutions must assume that burden so that philanthropy can s

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