[Work] 2020 Healthcare - There is no such thing as free gift, Gates & the Price of Philantrophy

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Management-guru preoccupied with how to give philanthropy the maximum “leverage” and “efficiency”.

McGoey also provocatively examines the power imbalances and ambiguities of charitable giving, “the difficulty of determining whose interests are most served”. While the Rockefellers were establishing their worldwide empire of good deeds, she points out, “‘Big Men’, tribal leaders who used gift-giving to accumulate.

The Gates Foundation comes across better in the book. “The Gateses do considerable good,” McGoey concedes. “Like Melinda’s willingness to speak out about the importance of contraception ... in developing countries. Or Bill’s support for raising the capital gains tax in the US.” Echoing other analysts of modern tycoon philanthropy, she depicts the Gateses and their foundation as unusually “willing to change their minds when the evidence suggests they should. They don’t seem afraid to admit their mistakes.”