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How Starbucks saved my life

From Ephemera, a review of Corporate Social Responsibility: Doing the Most Good for Your Company and Your Cause; Harvard Business Review on Corporate Responsibility; and The Triple Bottom Line: Does it All Add Up? Assessing the Sustainability of Business and CSR. Moving Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex: Do capitalists fund revolutions? A look at some of the ways by which liberal philanthropists work to co-opt the activities of progressive groups all over the world. A review of The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune by Conor O'Clery. A review of How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gates Gill. A review of All the Money in the World: How the Forbes 400 Make — and Spend — Their Fortunes. More on Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster by Dana Thomas.