Creating a World without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus
Creating a World without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus
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Creating a World without Poverty
How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives

Author: Muhammad Yunus

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 10 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/07/2008

Synopsis

Over the last few decades, free markets have swept the globe and brought positive change. Nevertheless, traditional capitalism cannot solve problems of inequality and poverty because of its view of people as one-dimensional beings concerned only with profit. In fact, human beings have many other drives and passions, including spiritual, social, and altruistic.Welcome to the world of social business, where the creative vision of the entrepreneur is applied to today's most serious problems: feeding the poor, housing the homeless, healing the sick, and protecting the planet. Creating a World without Poverty tells the stories of some of the earliest examples of social businesses, including Yunus' own Grameen Bank. It reveals the next phase in an economic and social revolution that is already underway and in the worldwide effort to eliminate poverty by unleashing the productive energy of every human being.

About Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus, a native of Bangladesh, was educated at Dhaka University and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at Vanderbilt University. In 1972 he became head of the economics department at Chittagong University. He is the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, a pioneer of microcredit, which an economic movement that has helped lift millions of families around the world out of poverty. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. He also received a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama in 2009 and was named one of Fortune's 12 Greatest Entrepreneurs of Our Time in 2012.

About Karl Weber

Karl Weber, president of Karl Weber Literary, is a writer, editor, and book developer with over twenty-five years of experience in the book publishing industry. Weber has coauthored and edited a number of books, including the New York Times bestseller Creating a World without Poverty, coauthored with Muhammad Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize; the #1 New York Times bestseller What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception by Scott McClellan, which Weber edited; and two bestselling companion books to acclaimed documentary films, Food Inc. and Waiting for “Superman,” both of which Weber edited. Before founding his company, Weber served as managing director of the Times Business imprint at Random House and as senior editor and publisher in the trade book division of John Wiley & Sons. He also spent time as an editor at McGraw-Hill and AMACOM, the book-publishing division of the American Management Association. Weber lives in Irvington, New York, with his wife.

About Patrick Lawlor

Patrick Lawlor, an award-winning narrator, is also an accomplished stage actor, director, and combat choreographer. He has worked extensively off Broadway and has been an actor and stuntman in both film and television. He has been an Audie Award finalist multiple times and has garnered several AudioFile Earphones Awards, a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and many starred audio reviews from Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Eve

Excellent book. Yunus is an inspiring man. I know nothing about economics yet I was able to understand this book, and it has helped me clarify for myself what kind of business I would like to run someday - a social business. Basically, it presents a new model for social services - building organizat......more

Goodreads review by Ahmed

لا أبالغ لو قلت أن هذا الكتاب هو خارج نطاق التقييم ... فلا يصح أن يقيم بـ 5 أو ست أو سبع نجوم... فهو كتاب عظيم بالمعنى الحرفي للكلمة ... كتاب يحمل رؤية صادقة و عميقة لمشاكل الغالبية العظمى من سكان العالم .. ألا و هم الفقراء محمد يونس .. دكتور الاقتصاد الذي يقول أنه شعر بخواء كل النظريات التي يدرسها ل......more

Goodreads review by Snehil

This is a very inspiring book. Dr Yunus, the inventor of the concept of Grameen Banking (Micro-banking), and the Grameen bank won Nobel peace prize in 2006. In this book, Dr Yunus has elaborated on the idea of Grameen bank and several other projects he and his team have started to uplift the poor. I......more

Goodreads review by Josephine

If there were more people like Muhammad Yunus, then maybe his goal of stamping out poverty by 2050 will be achieved — hell, maybe he’ll be able to get Bangladesh there all on his own at the rate that he’s going. In “Creating A World Without Poverty,”, Yunus talks about social businesses and the futur......more

Goodreads review by فهد

في عام 1974 م غرقت بنجلاديش في فيضانات مدمرة، الناجون من هذه الفيضانات، وجدوا أنفسهم بلا غذاء، يواجهون مجاعة لا ترحم. كان هذا هو الجو الذي وجد فيه الدكتور الشاب (محمد يونس) نفسه، كان قد عاد إلى بلده في العام نفسه متخليا ً عن منصبه كأستاذ مساعد في جامعة ميدل تينسي الأمريكية، مدفوعا ً بمشاعره تجاه ا......more

Quotes

“The influential economist and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world.”  Bookseller (UK)

“Muhammad Yunus argues convincingly that social business is an achievable way of exploiting capitalism to help the poor. Yunus moves the debate beyond the tired argument that the rich should simply donate to those less privileged, and demonstrates that the free market can in fact be used to the advantage of the less well off...This book is a must-read for policymakers or philanthropists, and its conversational style and straightforward logic also make it appealing to the layperson.” Scotland on Sunday

“In this excellent work of popular economics, he tells the story of how he came to the idea and the impressive results it has generated.” Winnipeg Free Press

“Infused with entrepreneurial spirit and the excitement of a worthy challenge, this book is the opposite of pessimistic recitals of intractable poverty's horrors.”  Publishers Weekly

Awards

  • Nautilus Book Award
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