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Title The price of humanity : how philanthropy went wrong and how to fix it / Amy Schiller.
Author Schiller, Amy, author.
Publication Info. Brooklyn : Melville House, 2023
©2023
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 Chickasaw  361.7 SCH    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  361.7 SCH    Check Shelves
Description 264 pages ; 24 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-248) and index.
Summary 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.
Contents 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.
Subject Charities -- History.
Public welfare -- History.
Philanthropists -- History.
Added Author Melville House Publishing, publisher.
ISBN 9781685890223 (hardcover) : $29.99
1685890229 (hardcover)
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