"Inventing the Nonprofit Sector" and Other Essays on Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations

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"Hall's treatment of the intertwining of interest group and academic politics in the recent development of philanthropic studies is especially interesting."-- Business History Review

About the Author

Peter Dobkin Hall is Leonard Bacon Research Scholar in the Yale University Program on Non-Profit Organizations and teaches in the Divinity School at Yale University.

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	"Hall's treatment of the intertwining of interest group and academic politics in the recent development of philanthropic studies is especially interesting."-- Business History Review
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	Philanthropy and voluntarism are among the most familiar and least understood of American institutions. The oldest American nonprofit corporation -- Harvard College -- dates from 1636, but most of the million or... read full editorial
	From the Publisher
	"Hall's hope for the future of nonprofit scholarship is that it will develop into full maturity through intensified intellectual exchange with other academic fields. His own book is a major step... read full editorial

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