Philanthrocapitalism How Giving Can Save the World

by Bishop, Matthew; Green, Michael; Clinton, Bill

• ISBN13: 9781596916951
• ISBN10: 1596916958
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-10
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Press

Summary

Our world faces enormous challenges, from climate change to poverty and killer disease in the developing world, to failing education systems at home. How are we going to find solutions to a troubling spectrum of problems? Government does not have all the answers. The most effective responses are increasingly coming from a new generation of philanthropists. These philanthrocapitalists, who have harnessed technology and globalization to earn epic fortunes, are using their business skills to engineer social change. Bill Gates leads the way: He has promised to give away his considerable fortune, dedicating much of it to finding cures for the diseases that kill millions of children in the poorest countries in the world.

Author Biography

Matthew Bishop is chief business writer of the Economist. Michael Green is an expert on the relationship between government and the nongovernmental sector, particularly in the field of international development. Bishop lives in London, Green in New York.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
The Age of Philanthrocapitalism	p. 1
Carnegie's Children	p. 13
The Spirit of Philanthrocapitalism	p. 30
Billanthropy	p. 51
Investors for Good	p. 75
The Vision Thing	p. 98
Philanthropreneurship the eBay Way	p. 116
Picassos, Genomes, and Ivory Towers	p. 138
The Return of the Living Dead	p. 151
The Good Company	p. 172
Enter the Celanthropist	p. 194
Virtue's Middlemen	p. 214
We Are All Philanthrocapitalists Now	p. 239
The Age of Plutocracy?	p. 247
The Gospel of Wealth 2.0	p. 267
Acknowledgments	p. 287
Source Notes	p. 289
Index	p. 297
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