Philanthrocapitalism: Savior or Emperor?

April 9, 2009
by Carol Adelman , Bradley Center , Center for Global Prosperity

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A complete, edited transcript is now available of the April 9 panel discussion hosted by Hudson Institute's Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal and Hudson Institute's Center for Global Prosperity, entitled

Philanthrocapitalism: Savior or Emperor?

Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Hudson Institute - Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center
1015 15th Street, NW - Suite 600
Washington, DC 20005

Event Description

Adelman, Bishop, Edwards, and Whittle

In Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World, MATTHEW BISHOP suggests that the world is now witnessing a new breed of the super-wealthy who are turning their energies, business know-how, and passion to philanthropic ends, with every prospect that they will succeed where generations of more traditional and staid philanthropy haven't. In Just Another Emperor? The Myths and Realities of Philanthrocapitalism, MICHAEL EDWARDS insists to the contrary that relying on the super-wealthy to solve global problems is to neglect what should be one of the fundamental purposes of philanthropy and civil society, namely, to provide a counterbalance to the influence of wealth on behalf of social justice.

On Thursday, April 9, these two authors came face to face to discuss these and other questions, along with GlobalGiving CEO DENNIS WHITTLE, one of the leading practitioners of this approach (and former economist and head of the strategy and innovation groups at the World Bank). This discussion, co-hosted by Hudson Institute's Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal and Hudson Institute's Center for Global Prosperity, was moderated by the Center for Global Prosperity's CAROL ADELMAN and the Bradley Center's WILLIAM SCHAMBRA.

Program and Panel

11:45 a.m.
Registration, lunch buffet

12:00 p.m.
Welcome by Hudson Institute's CAROL ADELMAN and WILLIAM SCHAMBRA

12:10
Panel discussion
MATTHEW BISHOP, The Economist
MICHAEL EDWARDS, author of Just Another Emperor

DENNIS WHITTLE, GlobalGiving

1:10
Question-and-answer session

2:00
Adjournment

Further Information

To request further information on this event or the Bradley Center, please visit the center’s web site at http://pcr.hudson.org or send an e-mail to Kristen at Kmcintyre@hudson.org. For questions on the Center for Global Prosperity, please contact Yulya Spantchak at yulya@hudson.org or visit the center’s web site at http://www.global-prosperity.org.

Carol Adelman is a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute and director of Hudson's Center for Global Prosperity. She served as a career foreign service officer for ten years and as an assistant administrator from 1988-1993 at the Agency for International Development (USAID).

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Hudson Institute's Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal aims to explore the usually unexamined intellectual assumptions underlying the grantmaking practices of America’s foundations and provide practical advice and guidance to grantmakers who seek to support smaller, grassroots institutions in the name of civic renewal.

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