Creating a world without poverty social business and the future of capitalism

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,...

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Main Author: Yunus, Muhammad 1940-
Other Authors: Weber, Karl
Format: Book
Published: New York PublicAffairs 2007
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505 1 # |a 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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