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Robert L. Payton is Professor Emeritus of Philanthropic Studies and was the first director of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. He is author of Philanthropy: Voluntary Action for the Public Good.
Michael P. Moody is Assistant Professor in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California. He is a cultural sociologist whose work focuses on the theory and practice of philanthropy.
| Preface and Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction: Why This Book? | p. 1 |
| Voluntary Action for the Public Good | p. 27 |
| Because Things Go Wrong: Philanthropy as a Response to the Human Problematic | p. 62 |
| The World Can Be Made Better: Philanthropy as Moral Action | p. 96 |
| The Social History of the Moral Imagination | p. 131 |
| Philanthropy, Democracy, and the Future | p. 155 |
| Notes | p. 175 |
| Suggestions for further reading | p. 197 |
| Index | p. 199 |
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