A new book called The Trouble With Billionaires, by the “feisty social critic” Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks, is getting a lot of play in Canada at the moment. We have not seen a copy yet, but an excerpt in the The Star contains an attack on the philanthropy of the rich that is worth examining. McQuaig and Brooks report […]
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What are the best books on philanthropy, or at least, for philanthropists? Sean Stannard-Stockton has published a list of books on his excellent blog, Tactical Philanthropy. Happily, he includes “Philanthrocapitalism” among them. Sean’s list is a good one, not least in how it ranges outside of the narrow philanthropy universe to take in books such […]
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Not everybody is doing badly in the economic crisis. John Paulson, a hedge fund boss, is coining it. He famously took home $3.7 billion in 2007 (personally), after he shorted banking shares, and his funds were up last year and again in the first two months of this year. Whilst the new Forbes rich list […]