Building Social Business

Resumen del libro

Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and, with his Grameen Bank, won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, has developed a visionary new dimension for capitalism which he calls social business. By harnessing the energy of profit-making to the objective of fulfilling human needs, social business creates self-supporting, viable commercial enterprises that generate economic growth even as they produce goods and services that make the world a better place. In this book, Yunus shows how social business has gone from being a theory to an inspiring practice, adopted by leading corporations, entrepreneurs, and social activists across Asia, South America, Europe and the US. He demonstrates how social business transforms lives; offers practical guidance for those who want to create social businesses of their own; explains how public and corporate policies must adapt to make room for the social business model; and shows why social business holds the potential to redeem the failed promise of free-market enterprise.

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.