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Creating a World Without Poverty

Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

By Karl Weber, Muhammad Yunus

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| Hardcover | 9781586484934

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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 tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today.

In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globeContinue

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 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.

Creating a World Without Poverty tells the stories of some of the earliest examples of social businesses, including Yunus's own Grameen Bank. It reveals the next phase in a hopeful economic and social revolution that is already under way--and in the worldwide effort to eliminate poverty by unleashing the productive energy of ever human being.

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  • Excellent book of the Noble laureate Yunus, explaning his new idea of the Social Business, a no-dividend no-losses coompany that delivers goods or services for the poors.
    He is a visionary leader and I'm proud to collaborate with him

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    Eugenio La Mesa said on Jun 8, 2009 | Add your feedback

  • Great book

    Yunus has given us a practical plan for tackling world poverty. If only we could get our governments to follow such sound advice. Alas, the poor donate little to political campaigns and their interests are given a low priority.

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    myrtlebch said on Jan 2, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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