New Orleans The headline, sound bite from the Oxfam report, “Working for the Few: Political Capture and Inequality,” released on the eve of the World Economic Forum for the rich and business elite at Davos, Switzerland, was the fact that 85 individual super-rich have as much citizen wealth as half of the world’s population. Indeed, …
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Philanthropic Colonialism, Conscience Laundering, and Larry Summers
New Orleans Buried in my stacks of old papers have been some nuggets of gold, and one was an op-ed written by Peter Buffett in the Times entitled “The Charitable-Industrial Complex.” Buffett is identified as “a composer and a chairman of the NoVo Foundation,” but is clear that what gets him a seat at the …