A new biography of Madam C. J. Walker shows how America’s first self-made female millionaire and Black entrepreneur put philanthropy at the center of her business and life.
Elisabeth S. Clemens’ Civic Gifts demonstrates how voluntarism, long associated with locally based efforts, has been central to the project of building a strong nation-state.
In Precision Community Health, Bechara Choucair offers a four-pillared framework to address historic systemic inequities in public health but fails to confront the power arrangements that undergird them.
Rebecca Henderson’s Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire outlines five ways we can reform capitalism to overcome climate change, inequality, and the collapse of democracy. A book review in the Summer 2020 issue.
In The Power of Experiments, Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman examine the growing reliance on the scientific method in shaping market and policy decisions. A book review in the Summer 2020 issue.
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz
Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs by Muhammad Yunus
