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Getting the most out of giving

Karen Page (Penn State) and Yinlong Zhang (UTSA): Accepting Inequality Deters Responsibility: How Power Distance Decreases Charitable Behavior. Dean S. Karlan (Yale) and Daniel H. Wood (Clemson): The Effect of Effectiveness: Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness in a Direct Mail Fundraising Experiment. Melanie Rudd (Houston), Jennifer Aaker (Stanford), and Michael I. Norton (Harvard): Getting the Most Out of Giving: Concretely Framing a Prosocial Goal Maximizes Happiness. Johannes Lohse, Timo Goeschl, and Johannes Diederich (Heidelberg): Giving is a Question of Time: Response Times and Contributions to a Real World Public Good. Saerom Lee (UTSA) and Karen Page and William T. Ross Jr. (Penn State): I'm Moral, But I Won't Help You: The Distinct Roles of Empathy and Justice in Donations. Richard Yetter Chappell reviews The Limits of Kindness by Caspar Hare. Joanne Barkan on how to criticize “Big Philanthropy” effectively. Amy Schiller on how philanthro-capitalists can’t buy a clue. Stop telling rich folks to give more to charity: Benjamin Soskis on Walmart and the rise of philanthro-shaming. Oonagh B. Breen (UCD): Minding the Pennies: Global Trends in the Regulation of Charitable Fundraising. Felix Salmon on how the Ice Bucket Challenge isn’t going away — but giving money to disease-specific charities is still a bad idea. British GQ gives "Philanthropist of Year" award to popular fellow. Lewis B. Cullman on stopping the misuse of philanthropy. Dana Schowalter (Wisconsin): Philanthropy as Gendered Global Governance: Philanthrocapitalism, Branded Citizenship, and the Selling of Corporate Social Responsibility. Is philanthropy bad for democracy? Progressives are hypersensitive to way the big money in politics perpetuates advantage and inequality, but seem blind to the dangers posed by largely unaccountable donors.