Philanthrocapitalism: myth or reality?

Needed: healthy competition in the global philanthropy market

Matthew Bishop
1 March 2007
Alliance magazine

As the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci told his fellow revolutionaries, to understand capitalism you need to look at its most advanced form, which in his time was the America of Henry Ford. This edition of Alliance applies this lesson to philanthropy and looks at philanthrocapitalism – which, like today’s capitalism, is a truly global phenomenon.

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