APC’s CEO Laurence Lien Responds to “Winner Takes All”

Dear readers, This week, I head to London for a retreat for foundation leaders from around the world.  The foundation world has been abuzz about the 2018 book, “Winners Take All” by Anand Giridharadas.  In it, Giridharadas renounces the hubris and hypocrisy of the super-rich who claim they are helping the world.    He writes about out how market-based social solutions favoured by philanthropists today promote a win-win narrative that instead perpetuates and preserves the existing social order and obscures the elite’s role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. What is my response? One, I do not recognise…