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| Overview |
A new movement is afoot that promises to save the world by applying the magic of the market to the challenges of social change. Its supporters argue that using business principles to solve global problems is far more effective than more traditional approaches. What could be wrong with that? Almost everything, argues former Ford Foundation director Michael Edwards. In this hard-hitting, controversial exposé, he marshals a wealth of evidence to reveal that in reality, a market approach hurts more than it helps. Real change will come when business acts more like civil society, not the other way around. |
| About the authors |
Michael Edwards is an independent writer and activist who is affiliated with the New York-based think-tank Demos, the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University and the Brooks World Poverty Institute at Manchester University in the UK. From 1999 to 2008 he was Director of the Ford Foundation's Governance and Civil Society Program and previously worked for the World Bank, OxFam and Save the Children. |
| Table of contents |
Preface vii Chapter One Irrational Exuberance The Rise of 'Philanthrocapitalism' 1 Chapter Two The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly When Business Thinking Advances Social Change ' and When It Doesn't 16 Chapter Three Missing Evidence The Change That Philanthrocapitalism Doesn't Make 35 Chapter Four The High Cost of Mission Drift Why Human Values and Market Values Don't Mix 63 Chapter Five The Difference That Makes the Difference The Decline of Philanthrocapitalism and the Rise of Citizen Philanthropy 86 Acknowledgments 107 Notes 109 Index 118 About the Author 124 |
