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On Profits and Philanthropy, continued

Of all Felix Salmon’s many unjustified criticisms of our work (and this blog, like our books, is always written jointly), none is odder than his assertion in his latest attack (“Philanthropy Can’t Be Outsourced To A Profit Motive”) that “when corporate leaders listen to Altman and Bishop, then, they get the message that if they […]

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Of Profits and Philanthropy

In the good old days, when he used to write engaging articles about economics, the Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman took on the urgent and pressing issue of how food in England got so bad and why it had suddenly got better. The problem, as he described it, was that the English had industrialised […]