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From Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor, a vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet Muhammad Yunus is one of the modern world's most trenchant social critics. In A World of Three Zeros, he declare it's time to admit that the capitalist engine has failed most people - that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant inequality, widespread unemployment, and environmental destruction. Instead, we need a new economic system that unleashes altruism as a creative force just as powerful as self-interest. Here, Yunus describes the ingenious new financial tools now funding social businesses and sketches the legal and regulatory changes needed to jump-start the next wave of socially driven innovations.

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A book to make Wall Street quake.-- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""A book to make Wall Street quake--if Wall Street paid attention to the developing world...The author's reforms, he insists, will yield an economic system that more closely corresponds to who humans really are: partners and not predators. The author's humane proposal for economic reform, far from impractical, makes for provocative reading."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""Confidence and idealism...come across in Dan Woren's narration. His tonal and phrasing palette works well as Yunus, an activist Bangladeshi banker and economist, addresses global poverty through microlending and other forms of social capitalism."" -- ""AudioFile"" ""Optimism permeates his argument that the capitalist system's economic framework, driven by personal interest, is broken and must be redesigned...The book is packed with true-life examples, many from Yunus' own experiences with Grameen Bank...[and] offers sound recommendations to distribute global wealth more equitably through individual and systemic support for small-scale entrepreneurship."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""Yunus pioneered the concept of microcredit in the 1970s and 1980s and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. Since then he's come to believe that capitalism today is broken. In his new book, Yunus makes the case for a new system, based on serving human needs, not maximizing profit, that should take its place."" -- ""Fortune"" ""Yunus sets as goals eliminating poverty, unemployment, and environmental degradation. He demonstrates the possibilities of his vision with myriad examples...With wealth disparity an ongoing global concern, Yunus' inspiring and hopeful message is a must-read for all readers with even a semblance of economic literacy."" -- ""Library Journal (starred review)"" With wealth disparity an ongoing global concern, Yunus's inspiring and hopeful message is a must-read for all readers with even a semblance of economic literacy.""--Library Journal, starred

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Muhammad Yunus, a native of Bangladesh, is the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, a pioneer of microcredit, an economic movement that has helped lift millions of families around the world out of poverty. Yunus and Grameen Bank are winners of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. He is currently serving as Chief Adviser to the interim government of Bangladesh. Dan Woren is an American voice actor and Earphones Award-winning narrator. He has worked extensively in animation, video games, and feature films. He is best known for his many roles in anime productions such as Bleach and as the voice of Sub-Zero in the video game Mortal Kombat.

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