The Philanthropic Enterprise

01/08/2022

A huge honor to offer the 9th Annual Liggio Lecture for Atlas Network in December.

Dr. Lenore Ealy, incoming vice president of Universidad Francisco Marroquín, gave the Ninth Annual Liggio Lecture at Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner 2021. Her...

04/27/2021

Traditional causes may recede as the newly wealthy focus on weird, stand-alone projects.

04/08/2021

Interesting overview of the legal context around anonymous charitable donation and other charitable solicitation issues.

Editors’ note: Joseph Mead situates the pending Supreme Court case Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Beccerra within the broader history of efforts to regulate charitable solicitation. T…

10/13/2020

Open registration for the online 2020 Research Conference on Voluntary Governance.

Artisanship in Culture and Enterprise November 5–7, 2020 Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ

05/17/2019

There is a large literature on the role of nonprofit enterprises within society. This literature typically views nonprofits as either substitutes for government enterprises or complements to, and even necessary extensions of, these government efforts. While this literature has improved our understan...

04/12/2019

Max Gulker at AIER:

"In his recent book The Third Pillar, economist Raghuram Rajan discusses the importance of supportive communities alongside markets and government in a well-functioning society. Many well-intentioned government interventions have crowded out roles historically played by the community.

This bottom-up community support is not the pure altruism that is sometimes simplistically dismissed by free market advocates. It is an emergent phenomenon in healthy economies and societies. The idea that we can rig markets to solve all of our problems is the greatest impediment to this type of decentralized micro-philanthropy becoming the norm. It’s time to close the book on chapter one."

By Max Gulker | The theoretical perfection of markets is not a valid argument against government intervention, nor is it a valid reason for governments to intervene in service of that ideal.

04/03/2019

Interesting call for papers!

This two-day conference, in partnership with the Niskanen Center, aims to explore the role of markets, civil society, and government in shaping the future of work and technology.KEYNOTE SPEAKERSElizabeth RhodesResearch Director for the Basic Income Project, Y Combinator ResearchBetsey StevensonAssoc...

03/05/2019

With Stars of HOPE, you can help lift the spirits of the devastated communities through messages of hope and the healing power of kindness.

03/23/2018

Maybe good news for the humanities

Investor Bill Miller's $75 million gift to the Johns Hopkins philosophy department clashes with conventional wisdom regarding the value of studying the humanities today.