The Charity-Mongers of Modern Babylon: Bureaucracy, Scandal, and the Transformation of the Philanthropic Marketplace, c.1870-1912
The Charity-Mongers of Modern Babylon: Bureaucracy, Scandal, and the Transformation of the Philanthropic Marketplace, c.1870-1912
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现代巴比伦的慈善贩子：官僚主义、丑闻和慈善市场的转型，c.1870-1912
DOI：
10.1017/jbr.2014.163
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发表时间：
2015
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1
通讯作者：
Roddy S
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Roddy S
本文通过考虑慈善与市场监管的关系，揭示了维多利亚时代人们所熟悉的慈善世界。关注“慈善欺诈”，我们认为，在这个独特的和矛盾的市场的塑造，慈善机构急切地抓住欺诈谴责广告和认证其合法性。这反映了自家长式社会关系时代以来，慈善界发生的巨大变化，同时也说明了捐赠公众面临的极端问题：如果一个人不能完全确定一个地方慈善机构，他或她怎么能区分为国际灾难筹集资金的国家组织呢？这种对合法性的争夺和对欺诈行为的揭露，塑造了一个有争议但却异常良性的交易市场：到了世纪之交，慈善机构不仅公布了账目，还公开辩论了账目。
This essay sheds new light on the supposedly familiar world of Victorian philanthropy by considering charity in relation to market regulation. Focusing on the “charity fraud,” we suggest that in the shaping of this exclusive and paradoxical marketplace, charities eagerly seized fraud denunciations to advertise and authenticate their legitimacy. This reflected the massive changes in the charitable world since the days of paternalist social relations and, paradoxically, illustrates the extremity of the problem facing the donating public: if one could not be entirely certain of a local charity, how could he or she discern between the national organizations that undertook fund-raising for international disasters? This contest for legitimacy and the exposure of fraud shaped a contested but oddly virtuous exchange market: by the turn of the twentieth century, charities not only published account sheets but debated them publicly, too.