Creating a World Without Poverty by Mohammed Yunus

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I strongly recommend this for my ICU students' summer reading.

The concept of social business as envisioned by Yunus may have some weaknesses in terms of the reality of balancing financial self-interest of corporations and the desire to do social good. However, I want to believe in his assertion that financial self-interest is not the only force that drives humans, and that there is enough interest in helping others among various capitalists to make a "social business" a viable legally protected system.

Many economists and capitalists also doubted his Grameen Bank model built on trust of the desire of the poor to improve themselves through micro credit, but he has proven them wrong. The book gives a real life example of the Danon-Grameen social business. I hope more examples will follow.