CREATING A WORLD WITHOUT POVERTY; Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

Yunus, Mohammed

ISBN 10: 1586484931 / ISBN 13: 9781586484934

Published by PublicAffairs, New York, 2007

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SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2"), gold quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over black boards, illustrated with 8 pages of B&W photographs, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with portrait of M. Yunus, Index, 261 pages + [3] About Author +[2] Ad for PublicAffairs. Muhammad Yunus (born 1940) is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. SIGNED and EXCEPTIONALLY FINE "As New" CONDITION! No previous owner or remainder marks.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CREATING A WORLD WITHOUT POVERTY; Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
• Publisher: PublicAffairs, New York
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1586484931
• ISBN 13: 9781586484934
• Binding: Cloth and boards
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Business & Management / Philanthropy

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Synopsis

In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for positive change. But traditional capitalism cannot solve problems like inequality and poverty, because it is hampered by a narrow view of human nature in which people are one-dimensional beings concerned only with profit.

In fact, human beings have many other drives and passions, including the spiritual, the social, and the altruistic. Welcome to the world of social business, where the creative vision of the entrepreneur is applied to today's most serious problems: feeding the poor, housing the homeless, healing the sick, and protecting the planet.

Creating a World Without Poverty tells the stories of some of the earliest examples of social businesses, including Yunus's own Grameen Bank. It reveals the next phase in a hopeful economic and social revolution that is already under way—and in the worldwide effort to eliminate poverty by unleashing the productive energy of every human being.

About the Author

Muhammad Yunus, a native of Bangladesh, was educated at Dhaka University and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at Vanderbilt University. In 1972 he became head of the economics department at Chittagong University. He is the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, a pioneer of microcredit, an economic movement that has helped lift millions of families around the world out of poverty. Yunus and Grameen Bank are winners of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.