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020 _a9781586484934
050 0 0 _aHD60
_b.Y86 2007
082 1 _a338.7 YUN
_2
100 1 _aYunus, Muhammad
245 1 0 _aCreating a world without poverty :
_bsocial business and the future of capitalism
_c/ Muhammad Yunus with Karl Weber.
260 _aNew York
_b: PublicAffairs
_c, c2007.
300 _a261 p.
_b: illus.
_c; 25 cm.
500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 _aPrologue : 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.
520 3 _aMuhammad 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.
546 _aEnglish.
650 4 _aSocial responsibility of business
650 4 _aIndustries
_x-Social aspects
650 4 _aPoverty
_x-Prevention
700 1 _aWeber, Karl
_d(1953 -)
942 _cMO
999 _c252420
_d252420