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

By: Yunus, Muhammad, 1940-.
Contributor(s): Weber, Karl, 1953-.
Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, c2007Description: xvii, 261 p. : ill., plates ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781586484934:.Subject(s): Social responsibility of business | Industries -- Social aspects | Poverty -- PreventionDDC classification: 338.7
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.
Summary: The winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more human world, and tells the inspiring stories of companies that are carrying out this work.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 338.7 YUN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0060459
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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.

The winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more human world, and tells the inspiring stories of companies that are carrying out this work.

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