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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 

Yunus on Social Business

Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, has recently released his second book, Creating a World Without Poverty. The centerpiece of this book is Yunus proposal for a new kind of institution called a "social business" which is a for-profit business which has as its top objective a social objective/mission. Yunus makes a passionate argument for the benefit and role of social businesses in helping us move extreme poverty to museums.

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I enjoy your blog and am also a supporter of Unitus. As a heads up, when I clicked on the "Read full book review" link, it brought me to a review of How to Change the World. Ryan

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