The economics of inequality -- The politics of inequality -- The funding and biases of American politics -- History and reform efforts -- The problem of government -- The need for public financing -- Organizing for democracy

During the past decade attention paid to the role of private foundations in international development cooperation has intensified, as several of these have increased their global giving and transformed their approach to philanthropy from reactive grant-making to strategic social impact. While...

In section I of this article, the factors driving towards the emergence of new transnational private regulation (TPR) are identified in comparison with, on the one hand, merchant law and, on the other, international public regimes. In section II, the focus is on the private sphere, looking at...

1. The philanthrocapitalist turn : implications for the aid architecture -- 2. Private foundations and global health partnership formation : the Rockefeller Foundation and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative -- 3. New organs of global health governance : the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation...

Peabody, Sage, Carnegie, and Rockefeller -- Harkness, Guggenheim, Mott, Markle, Kellogg, Mellon, Luce, and Ford -- Investigations and studies -- Rockefellers, Jones, Pew, Starr, Tinker, Packard, and Hewlett -- MacArthur, Soros, Templeton, Kerkorian, Turner, and Gates -- Central and Eastern...

This study focuses on the early stages of international innovation activities, i.e. the organizational processes through which promising ideas from around the globe are collected and evaluated. We ask: What characteristics make foreign knowledge interesting to domestic R&D managers? We envision...

The process of globalization has an important impact on national tax policies. Most of the literature on taxation of capital in open economies does not focus directly on the political decision making process and assumes that the desired tax policy is responding to objective underlying tradeoffs....