Creating a world without poverty : social business and the future of capitalism /
By: Yunus, Muhammad.
Contributor(s): Weber, Karl.
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![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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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.