A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions

A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions

by Muhammad Yunus
A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions

A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions

by Muhammad Yunus

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Overview

A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet

Muhammad 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. 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. We need a new economic system that unleashes altruism as a creative force just as powerful as self-interest.

Is this a pipe dream? Not at all. 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 than accumulate wealth. They are bringing solar energy to millions of homes in Bangladesh; turning thousands of unemployed young people into entrepreneurs through equity investments; financing female-owned businesses in cities across the United States; bringing mobility, shelter, and other services to the rural poor in France; and creating a global support network to help young entrepreneurs launch their start-ups.

In A World of Three Zeros, Yunus describes the new civilization emerging from the economic experiments his work has helped to inspire. 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. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781541742390
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 09/11/2018
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 304
Sales rank: 285,477
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Muhammad Yunus is the founder of Grameen Bank and more than fifty other companies in Bangladesh. He is widely known as both the father of microcredit and of the social business movement. In 2006, Professor Yunus and Grameen Bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He is one of only seven individuals to have received the Nobel Peace Prize, the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the United States Congressional Gold Medal. Yunus is the recipient of fifty-five honorary degrees from universities in twenty countries, and has received 112 awards from twenty-six countries, including state honors from ten countries.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The Challenge

1 The Failures of Capitalism 3

2 Creating a New Civilization: The Counter economics of Social Business 17

Part 2 The Three Zeros

3 Zero Poverty: Bringing an End to Income Inequality 35

4 Zero UN employment: We Are Not Job Seekers, We Are Job Creators 67

5 Zero Net Carbon: Creating an Economics of Sustainability 95

6 A Road Map to a Better Future 118

Part 3 Megapowers for Transforming the World

7 Youth: Energizing and Empowering the Young People of the World 146

8 Technology: Unleashing the Power of Technology to Liberate All People 173

9 Good Governance and Human Rights: Keys to Building a Society That Works for All 199

Part 4 Stepping Stones to the Future

10 The Legal and Financial Infrastructure We Need 229

11 Redesigning the World of Tomorrow 259

Notes 267

Index 273

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