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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.7
EAN: 9781586484934
ISBN: 1586484931
Label: PublicAffairs
Manufacturer: PublicAffairs
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 296
Publication Date: January 07, 2008
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Sales Rank: 3862
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In the last two decades, free markets have swept theglobe, bringing with them enormous potential for positivechange. But traditional capitalism cannot solve problemslike inequality and poverty, because it is hamperedby a narrow view of human nature in which people areone-dimensional beings concerned only with profit.
In fact, human beings have many other drives andpassions, including the spiritual, the social, and thealtruistic. Welcome to the world of social business, wherethe creative vision of the entrepreneur is applied totoday's most serious problems: feeding the poor, housingthe homeless, healing the sick, and protecting the planet.
Creating a World Without Poverty tells the stories ofsome of the earliest examples of social businesses,including Yunus's own Grameen Bank. It reveals the nextphase in a hopeful economic and social revolution that isalready under way—and in the worldwide effort to eliminatepoverty by unleashing the productive energy of everyhuman being.
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Rating:  - High on rhetoric, short on action
Professor Yunus' book pales in comparison to his Banker to the Poor - this current book is light on action and heavy on rhetoric. It does tell a story about how he was able to create a social enterprise - using his connections as a Nobel Prize winner and book author.
It does not give any type of action plan on how the typical person could arrange a social business or even more their company more toward a social function. I was disappointed as it was more a book of opinions and far-flung ... Read More
Rating: - "Creating A World Without Poverty" by Muhammad Yunus
In "Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism," the follow up to "Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty", Muhammad Yunus describes a new economic entity he calls the "social business." In short, this is an organization that has a specific social goal as opposed to regular business, for which profit is the only goal.
Yunus is most famous for receiving the Nobel Prize in 2006 along with his Grameen Bank, which is the world's ... Read More
Rating: - Social Business, a concept that can save this world
When I bought this book, my expectations were primarily to get a deeper insight into micro credit, since Prof Yunus is best known for this powerful means for empowering the poor to free themselves from the shackles of poverty. However, from the first chapter itself, it was abundantly cleat that this book is about the novel concept of Social Business, a paradigm shift in the way we look at business. We have all along assumed that Business and profits inseparable Siamese twins, and the "aim of all business ... Read More
Rating: - A noble dream
Poverty is a threat to peace, hence the Nobel Peace Prize.
But his arguments for social business are also a contribution to modern economic theory.
I first read the epilogue ( the lecture for the Nobel Prize), which summarizes the ideas.
Recommended for anyone interested in human development , in particular the situation of the "bottom billion".
Rating: - Excellent primer for the emerging field of social businesses
As someone in the midst of trying to make a small business run within the lines of corporate social responsibility, I've really wrestled with the inherent problems with the whole "triple-bottom-line" movement.Primarily, I've wrestled with how one chooses which of the many bottom lines as they compete over and against each other.Yunus tackles this issue head on with his idea of the "social business" that is a single-bottom-line business: the bottom line of social transformation.I particularly like that ... Read More
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