From Prophecy to Charity How to Help the Poor

Name: From Prophecy to Charity How to Help the Poor
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ISBN: 9780844743806

ISBN-10: 0844743801

ISBN-13: 9780844743806

Edition: 2011

Authors: Lawrence M. Mead

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Helping the poor is a question central to American life. Partially driven by America's Judeo-Christian heritage, Americans believe we possess enough wealth to provide some minimum basic standard of living for all and genuinely desire to help the least among us. We are the most generous nation on earth, spending hundreds of billions of dollars annually through private giving, corporate philanthropy, government aid, and other forms of charity. And yet, despite these efforts, international and domestic poverty persist.In From Prophecy to Charity: How to Help the Poor, Lawrence M. Mead critiques the philosophical presuppositions of past and current endeavors to alleviate poverty and provides a…

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List price: $7.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 140
Size: 4.59" wide x 6.52" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English