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Like many Market-World do-gooders, she was more interested in starting something new than in examining how she and those around her—and the institutions they belonged to—might change their existing ways.
Winners Take All
Anand Giridharadas
The pretence of knowledge is a problem. But so is the pretence of ignorance, and the discipline of economics, and the social sciences more broadly, still haven’t grappled enough with this second problem.
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
The ‘new paradigm’ promoted by the BSC is for the UK social sector to become an ‘asset class’ worthy of city investment by being able to pay dividends to investors; to achieve this, third sector organisations will be expected to adopt more private sector norms and practices. This is not only a UK trend but observable in development work internationally
Social impact bonds: a wolf in sheep’s clothing?
Neil McHugh ; Stephen Sinclair ; Michael Roy ; Leslie Huckfield ; Cam Donaldson
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