Creating a world without poverty : social business and the future of capitalism / Muhammad Yunus with Karl Weber.
Yunus, Muhammad, 1940-; Weber, Karl.
2007
HD60 .Y86 2007 (Mapit)
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Title Creating a world without poverty : social business and the future of capitalism / Muhammad Yunus with Karl Weber.
Author Yunus, Muhammad, 1940-
ISBN 9781586484934
1586484931
Imprint New York : PublicAffairs, c2007.
Language English
Description xvii, 261 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number HD60 .Y86 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.7
Summary The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world--and he tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today. In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for positive change. But traditional capitalism cannot solve problems like inequality and poverty, because it is hampered by a narrow view of human nature in which people are one-dimensional beings concerned only with profit. In fact, human beings have many other drives and passions, including the spiritual, the social, and the altruistic. Welcome to the world of social business, where the creative vision of the entrepreneur is applied to today's most serious problems: feeding the poor, housing the homeless, healing the sick, and protecting the planet.--From publisher description.
Note Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Weber, Karl.
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Prologue : starting with a handshake
The promise of social business
A new kind of business
Social business : what it is and what it is not
The Grameen experiment
The microcredit revolution
From microcredit to social business
The battle against poverty : Bangladesh and beyond
God is in the details
One cup of yogurt a a time
A world without poverty
Broadening the marketplace
Information technology, globalization, and a transformed world
Hazards of prosperity
Putting poverty in museums
Epilogue: "Poverty is a threat to peace"
the Nobel Prize lecture.

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