“There are a number of points I wanted to make with this book,” Eberly said during an interview with About.com Monday morning. “The most relevant is that we have a dynamic interconnected private sector exceeding on a global scale what the [American] government does every day.”

Twenty five years ago, Eberly said, 80 percent of all US outflows were governmental. Now, 25 years later, 80 percent of all US outflows are from the private-sector. We’re in a new age of giving, he said.

“Even as our government proves itself to be clumsy, there will be continued private-sector giving” Eberly said. “Thanks to technology, many products enjoyed by people in the US are now almost automatically available across the world. Fifty million Americans claim to be globally connected in a continuous way.”

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