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

• Main Author: Yunus, Muhammad 1940-
• Other Authors: Weber, Karl
• Format: Book
• Published: New York PublicAffairs 2007
• Subjects: Social responsibility of business > Social aspects; Industries > Social aspects; Grameen Bank; Poverty > Prevention
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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 he tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today. In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe,...

Table of Contents:

• 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