Philanthropy - Charity
Philanthropy and charitable giving: Laurie Taylor explores the role, costs and benefits of an expanding charity sector. Is there such a thing as a free gift?
Philanthropy & charitable giving: Is there such a thing as a free gift? Laurie Taylor talks to Linsey McGoey, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex and author of a study of contemporary philanthropy. The amount of money placed in philanthropic trusts helps make the charitable sector one of the fastest growing global industries. Is this a new 'golden age' of giving which promises to replace the role of government as provider of social welfare? What are the potential conflicts between good deeds and hard profit? They're joined by Tom Hughes Hallett, philanthropist and Non Executive Chair of the Marshall Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Also, John Mohan, Professor of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham, discusses his British study into the logic of charity in 'hard times'.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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Linsey McGoey, No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of PhilanthropyΒ (Verso, 2015)
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