Just giving : why philanthropy is failing democracy and how it can do better / Rob Reich.
Material type: TextPublisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 239 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0691184399
- 9780691184395
- 361.709 23
- HV16
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-232) and index.
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.
Introduction -- Philanthropy as an artifact of the state : institutional forms of philanthropy -- Philanthropy and its uneasy realtionship to equality -- A political theory of philanthropy -- Repugnant to the whole idea of a democratic society? : on the role of foundations -- Philanthropy in time : future generations and intergenerational justice -- Conclusion.
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