Philanthro-capitalism: How charity became big business
Linsey McGoey is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex. She has been a member of the World Health Organization's expert steering group on the impact of a human rights-based approach to maternal and children's health. She has published reviews and op-eds for the Guardian, Spectator, Globe and Mail and Open Democracy.
The charitable model represented by the Gates Foundation is failing
to address the root causes of inequality and ecological crisis.
This path-breaking book is a sorely needed, historically grounded
investigation into the difference between philanthropy and
justice.
*Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and The
Shock Doctrine*
Fierce . provocatively examines the power imbalances and
ambiguities of charitable giving . a clear-eyed and much-needed
study.
*Guardian*
On both the left and the right, social critics sense that there is
something deeply corrupt in the way we live now . With
extraordinary insight and original investigation, Linsey McGoey
understands how this twenty-first century mess was made. Her voice
is reasoned and never shrill, her research is solid, and her
courage is remarkable. Rather than spin far-fetched conspiracy
theories, she simply shows what the oligarchs are doing in plain
sight, which is frightening enough.
*Jonathan Rose, author of The Intellectual Life of the British
Working Classes*
McGoey correctly questions whether Big Government would, in fact,
be more efficient than Big Philanthropy in addressing the rise of
inequality.
*New Republic*
It's worth hearing what she has to say, because it's not said
enough . we give too little scrutiny to people like Gates, and too
much credence to the idea that philanthrocapitalism can 'save the
world.'
*Fast Company*
Picking up the cudgels wielded by Ida Tarbell and her fellow
trustbusters, McGoey produces a startling report.
*Kirkus*
A timely criticism of a society that allows an individual to
accumulate such a distorting amount of financial power; it is an
indictment of unaccountable power.
*Maclean’s*
A brave, intelligent and important book that raises vital questions
about the full impact of a key source of the world's public health
funding. As the book shows the drive to do good can raise a host of
ethical and policy questions-many of which have not been considered
or even acknowledged prior to this book.
*Arthur Caplan, New York University*
A book that is by equal measure provocative and compelling that
finally gives a voice to
concerns that many have silently harbored ... charts the speed of
the Foundation's
emergence and influence with conceptual fluency and historically
referenced gusto that in
parts left me gobsmacked.
*Dr. Sophie Harman, Queen Mary, University of London*
Impeccably researched and beautifully written, Linsey McGoey's book
is the best and most complete examination of the Gates Foundation
and the workings of big philanthropy. A must-read for anyone
concerned with where the world is heading.
*Michael Edwards, Distinguished Senior Fellow, Demos*
In this valuable, dense, but accessible book, McGoey illuminates a
major cultural shift in leadership and control of power in the US.
Highly recommended.
*Choice*
A lively and well-argued antidote to the comfortable but
superficial assumption that giving money away is, by definition,
good: it helps you understand why things are more complicated than
that.
*Third Sector*
Essential reading for any scholar interested in contemporary
development issues . McGoey convincingly shows that contemporary
philanthropic thinking abides by the same underlying ideology than
that of the so-called robber barons.
*Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies*
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