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Here we are presented with a complex and yet thoroughly researched meditation on giving and philanthropy. It is really a comprehensive and well-written acknowledgement to aid starting from the 16th century up to the present day (almost). Dimensions of aid are explored herein in ways that present to us aspects that make us understand poverty, the poor, and even the rich. What makes some individuals or societies rich ("excess is the hallmark of the poor")? What is the philosophy of poverty (from A...