Buying a Better World George Soros and Billionaire Philanthropy

Name: Buying a Better World George Soros and Billionaire Philanthropy
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ISBN: 9781459731035

ISBN-10: 1459731034

ISBN-13: 9781459731035

Edition: 2015

Authors: Anna Porter

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He has been called "the only private citizen with his own foreign policy," and there is no doubt that George Soros plays a unique and unprecedented role: a billionaire social activist pursuing his own specific ideas for transforming the world into a more progressive and democratic society. Directing the flow of billions of dollars through his Open Society Foundations to causes from promoting climate change research to ensuring the survival of the European Union, Soros has emerged as a public intellectual and a political force politicians and business leaders can't afford to ignore.In Buying a Better World, Anna Porter gives a critical examination of the new world of billionaire philanthropy…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Publication date: 2/21/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Anna Porter is the author of many books, including The Ghosts of Europe , winner of the Shaughnessey Cohen Prize for Political Writing, Kasztner's Train , winner of the Nereus Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Award as well as the Jewish Book Award for Non-Fiction, and The Storyteller , the winner of the 2001 Canadian Authors Association/Birks Family Foundation Award for Biography. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada and awarded the Order of Ontario. Anna lives in Toronto.