Conversations On Philanthropy
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Title
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Author
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Reviewer
Tate Watkins
Date Reviewed
November 01, 2013
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Title
Giving Well: The Ethics of Philanthropy
Author
Patricia Illingworth, Thomas Pogge, and Leif Wenar
Reviewer
Nicholas Capaldi
Date Reviewed
November 01, 2013
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Title
Adam Smith’s Marketplace of Life
Author
James R. Otteson
Reviewer
Samuel Gregg
Date Reviewed
July 2, 2013
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Western Culture at the American Crossroads: Conflicts Over the Nature of Science and Reason
Author
Arthur Pontynen, Rod Miller
Reviewer
Troy Camplin
Date Reviewed
July 2, 2013
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Title
Bad Students, Not Bad Schools
Author
Robert Weissberg
Reviewer
George Leef
Date Reviewed
July 2, 2013
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Title
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
Author
James Gleick
Reviewer
Heather Wood Ion
Date Reviewed
July 2, 2013
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Title
The Man Who Sold America: The Amazing (But True!) Story of Albert D. Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century
Author
Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, Arthur W. Schultz
Reviewer
Martin Morse Wooster
Date Reviewed
July 2, 2013
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Title
Philanthropy in America: A History
Author
Olivier Zunz
Reviewer
George McCully
Date Reviewed
July 06, 2012
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Title
The Two Narratives of Political Economy
Author
Nicholas Capaldi, Gordon Lloyd
Reviewer
Art Carden
Date Reviewed
April 28, 2012
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Title
Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
Author
Anthony Esolen
Reviewer
Tony Woodlief
Date Reviewed
April 28, 2012
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Title
Authentic Patriotism
Author
Stephen P. Kiernan
Reviewer
Claire Gaudiani
Date Reviewed
December 13, 2011
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Title
Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life
Author
Nicholas Phillipson
Reviewer
James R. Otteson
Date Reviewed
December 13th, 2011
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Title
The Wisdom of Generosity: A Reader in American Philanthropy
Author
William J. Jackson
Reviewer
G. M. Curtis, III
Date Reviewed
July 01, 2009
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Title
The Perfect Gift: The Philanthropic Imagination in Poetry and Prose
Author
Amy A. Kass
Reviewer
G. M. Curtis, III
Date Reviewed
July 01, 2009
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Title
Giving Well, Doing Good: Readings for Thoughtful Philanthropists
Author
Amy A. Kass
Reviewer
G. M. Curtis, III
Date Reviewed
July 01, 2009
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Title
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World
Author
Deirdre N. McCloskey
Reviewer
Nicholas Capaldi
Date Reviewed
June 8th, 2012
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Title
Human Dignity
Author
George Kateb
Reviewer
Nicholas Capaldi
Date Reviewed
June 8th, 2012
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Title
The American Evolution
Author
Matt Harrison
Reviewer
Max Borders
Date Reviewed
October 25, 2011
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Title
Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America–and How We Can Get More of It
Author
Arthur C. Brooks
Reviewer
Laurie Morrow
Date Reviewed
October 25, 2011
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Title
Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
Author
Martha Nussbaum
Reviewer
Frederick Turner
Date Reviewed
October 25, 2011
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Title
Making Volunteers: Civic Life after Welfare’s End
Author
Nina Eliasoph
Reviewer
Ann C. Fitzgerald
Date Reviewed
October 03, 2011
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Title
Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?
Author
Michael J. Sandel
Reviewer
Dwight R. Lee
Date Reviewed
August 13, 2011
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Title
Marcel Mauss: A Biography
Author
Marcel Fournier, Jane Marie Todd, trans.
Reviewer
Laurent Dobuzinskis
Date Reviewed
July 08, 2011
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Title
Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought
Author
James G. Workman
Reviewer
Heather Wood Ion
Date Reviewed
June 15, 2011
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Title
Civil Society, Philanthropy, and the Fate of the Commons
Author
Bruce Sievers
Reviewer
George McCully
Date Reviewed
March 30, 2011
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Title
Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect
Author
Paul A. Rahe
Reviewer
S. T. Karnick
Date Reviewed
December 03, 2010
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Title
Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back
Author
Douglas Rushkoff
Reviewer
T. Clark Durant
Date Reviewed
December 03, 2010
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Title
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
Author
James C. Scott
Reviewer
Christopher Coyne
Date Reviewed
December 01, 2010
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Title
The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason and the Laws of Nature
Author
Timothy Ferris
Reviewer
Jack Sommer
Date Reviewed
December 01, 2010
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Title
The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery. Social learning in a post-disaster environment
Author
Emily Chamlee-Wright
Reviewer
Thomas K. Park
Date Reviewed
December 01, 2010
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Title
Christianity in Action: The International History of the Salvation Army
Author
Henry Gariepy
Reviewer
Martin Morse Wooster
Date Reviewed
December 01, 2010
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Title
On Kindness
Author
Adam Phillips, Barbara Taylor
Reviewer
Claire Morgan
Date Reviewed
September 13, 2010
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Title
The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape our Society
Author
Heather Mac Donald
Reviewer
Heather Wood Ion
Date Reviewed
August 30, 2010
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Title
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Author
Clay Shirky
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Max Borders
Date Reviewed
August 30, 2010
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Title
The Future of Philanthropy: Economics, Ethics, & Management
Author
Susan U. Raymond
Reviewer
Nicholas Capaldi
Date Reviewed
April 17, 2010
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Title
Dead Hands: A Social History of Wills, Trusts, and Inheritance Law
Author
Lawrence M. Friedman
Reviewer
G. M. Curtis, III
Date Reviewed
April 17, 2010
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Title
A ‘Shared Market Economy’: A Classical Liberal Rethinks the Market System
Author
Dwight Murphey
Reviewer
Gus DiZerega
Date Reviewed
March 27, 2010
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Title
We Make a Life by What We Give
Author
Richard B. Gunderman
Reviewer
Heather Wood Ion
Date Reviewed
August 03, 2009
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Title
Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential
Author
Dan Pallotta
Reviewer
Laurie Morrow
Date Reviewed
July 15, 2009
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Title
Philanthropy Reconsidered
Author
George McCully
Reviewer
Richard B. Gunderman
Date Reviewed
July 15, 2009
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Title
Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems
Author
Michael Strong, John Mackey
Reviewer
Frederick Turner
Date Reviewed
July 15, 2009
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Title
Money Well Spent
Author
Paul Brest, Hal Harvey
Reviewer
Martin Morse Wooster
Date Reviewed
July 15, 2009
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Title
Begging for Change: The Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient, and Rewarding for All
Author
Robert Egger
Reviewer
Heather Wood Ion
Date Reviewed
July 15, 2009
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