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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 expose, 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.
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"An important corrective to the wishful view that bringing capitalist principles to philanthropy will be good for both endeavors."
--Robert Kuttner, coeditor of The American Prospect and author of Everything for Sale
"There are all too few people in today's complex and confusing world who have either the courage or the clarity to speak truth to power. Michael Edwards has both, for which this well-researched, solidly argued, and levelheaded book provides ample evidence."
--Gita Sen, Professor, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; Adjunct Professor, Harvard School of Public Health; and Research Coordinator, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
--Robert B. Reich, Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley and author of Supercapitalism
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Michael Edwards is a writer and activist affiliated with the think tank Demos in New York, the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University, and the Brooks World Poverty Institute at Manchester University in the UK. Previously, he was director of the Ford Foundation's Governance and Civil Society Program and worked for the World Bank, Oxfam, and Save the Children.
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