Creating a world without poverty : social business and the future of capitalism
Yunus, Muhammad
Creating a world without poverty : social business and the future of capitalism / Muhammad Yunus with Karl Weber. - New York : PublicAffairs , c2007. - 261 p. : illus. ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
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.
Muhammad Yunus outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world. Human beings have many other drives and passions besides the profit motive, 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.
English.
9781586484934
Social responsibility of business
Industries---Social aspects
Poverty---Prevention
HD60 / .Y86 2007
338.7 YUN
Creating a world without poverty : social business and the future of capitalism / Muhammad Yunus with Karl Weber. - New York : PublicAffairs , c2007. - 261 p. : illus. ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
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.
Muhammad Yunus outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world. Human beings have many other drives and passions besides the profit motive, 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.
English.
9781586484934
Social responsibility of business
Industries---Social aspects
Poverty---Prevention
HD60 / .Y86 2007
338.7 YUN
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