A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (539 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MZ5RZ09 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 501 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Muhammad Yunus, a native of Bangladesh, was educated at Dhaka University and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at Vanderbilt 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
Now he declares it's time to admit that the capitalist engine is broken--that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant inequality, massive unemployment, and environmental destruction. And he invites young people, business and political leaders, and ordinary citizens to join the movement and help create the better world we all dream of.. He explains how global companies like McCain, Renault, Essilor, and Danone got involved with this new economic model through their own social action groups, describes the ingenious new financial tools now funding social businesses, and sketches the legal and regulatory changes needed to jumpstart the next wave of socially driven innovations. A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planetMuhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty, is one of today's most trenchant social critics. In the last decade, thousands of people and organizations have already embraced Yunus's vision of a new form of capitalism, launching innovative social businesses designed to serve human needs rather
"A book to make Wall Street quake."Kirkus Reviews