This autobiography of Nobel Peace Prizewinner Muhammad Yunus spent ten weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and was also a Wall Street Journal bestseller. Now repackaged in the spirit of his new book, Creating a World Without Poverty, this classic work on the birth of microfinance will cont[...]
Over 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 co[...]
In this title, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus looks more deeply into the concept of social business, an alternative to unfettered capitalism that channels the best energies of capitalism while addressing pressing human needs, by showing how the theory and practice of this idea is growing in the busin[...]
Growing up in Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus witnessed extreme poverty all around and was determined to eradicate it. In 1976, as an Economics professor, Muhammad met a young craftswoman in the village of Jobra who needed to borrow five taka (twenty-two cents) to buy materials. No bank would lend such a[...]
Muhammad Yunus, som är nationalekonom men kallar sig själv för social entreprenör, började arbeta med sin mikrolånidé redan 1976 när en svår hungersnöd rådde i Bangladesh. Han såg hjälpen från de stora internationella organisationerna försvinna till mellanhänder, istället för att r[...]
En alldeles ny bok från Fredspristagaren 2006, Muhammad Yunus. Boken presenterar ett antal viktiga förslag om hur företagare och entreprenörer kan driva sociala företag med mål utöver effektivitet och vinst.
Det är inte många nationalekonomer som lyckas med att skapa goda affär[...]
For astronaut Ron Garan, living on the International Space Station was a powerful, transformative experience - one that he believes holds the key to solving our problems on Earth. On spacewalks and through windows, Garan was struck by the stunning beauty of the earth from space but sobered by knowin[...]