Creating a World Without Poverty

Resumen del libro

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 tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today

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.

Biografía del autor

Muhammad Yunus nació en 1940 en Chittagong, Blangladesh, el centro económico de lo que entonces era Bengala Oriental. Fundador del Banco Grameen, en 2006 obtuvo el Premio Nobel de la Paz por su contribución a la erradicación de la pobreza y a la justicia social. Yumus también fue Premio Príncipe de Asturias de la Concordia en 1998.<br> Su libro El banquero de los pobres. Los microcréditos y la batalla contra la pobreza en el mundo que contribuyó a introducir en la agenda económica internacional las pequeñas medidas para hacer del capitalismo un sistema más social y más justo, ha sido también publicado por Paidós.