Muhammad Yunus Books

Banker to the Poor is Muhammad Yunus's memoir of how he decided to change his life in order to help the world's poor. In it he traces the intellectual and spiritual journey that led him to fundamentally rethink the economic relationship between rich and poor, and the challenges he and his colleagues faced in founding Grameen. He also provides wise, hopeful guidance for anyone who would like to join him in "putting homelessness and destitution in a museum so that one day our children will visit it and ask how we could have allowed such a terrible thing to go on for so long". The definitive history of micro-credit direct from the man that conceived of it, Banker to the Poor is necessary and inspirational reading for anyone interested in economics, public policy, philanthropy, social history, and business.

How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives

The Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author shows how entrepreneurial spirit and business smarts can be harnessed to create sustainable businesses that can solve the world's biggest problems. Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and, with his Grameen Bank, won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, has developed a new dimension for capitalism which he calls "social business." The social business model has been adopted by corporations, entrepreneurs, and social activists across the globe. Its goal is to create self-supporting, viable commercial enterprises that generate economic growth as they produce goods and services to fulfill human needs. In Building Social Business, Yunus shows how social business can be put into practice and explains why it holds the potential to redeem the failed promise of free-market enterprise.

Ron Garan experienced something unique and extraordinary living in orbit on the International Space Station (ISS) for six months. The ISS is arguably the most ambitious, technologically complicated undertaking in human history, and no one nation constructed it alone. Garan delves into the origins and global importance of the ISS, and then digs deeper to reveal the very personal impact his time on the ISS had for him. Now active in global projects to promote peace, combat hunger, thirst, and poverty, Ron is determined to use the audacity of the ISS as a model for cooperation to solve our greatest problems. We have all the technology and resources we need to overcome our greatest barriers to living in peace and prosperity. We only need to step outside our comfort zones, the way we ve always done things, and have the courage to embrace new collaborative partnerships and processes. Much more than a memoir or travelogue, Ron's book is a call to action for each of us to care for the most important space station of all, planet Earth."

The capitalist system, in its current form, is broken. Here, a Nobel Peace Prize-winner outlines his radical economic vision for fixing it. Eight individuals now own more wealth than 50 per cent of the global population, and high unemployment in many countries means that people's skills, knowledge, and creativity are being wasted. Rampant environmental destruction only adds to this picture of a bleak future in which humankind will no longer be able to sustain itself. But what if there is another way? Muhammad Yunus is the economist who invented microcredit, founded Grameen Bank, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work towards alleviating poverty. Here, he sets forth his vision to establish a new kind of capitalism, where altruism and generosity are valued as much as profit making, and where individuals not only have the capacity to lift themselves out of poverty, but also to affect real change for the planet and its people. A World of Three Zeroesoffers a challenge to young people, business and political leaders, and ordinary citizens everywhere to embrace a new form of capitalism, and improve the world for everyone before it's too late.

Muhammad Yunus hat vielen Menschen aus der Armut geholfen und ihnen ein Leben in Würde ermöglicht, wofür er den Friedensnobelpreis erhielt. In seinem neuen Buch vermittelt er eine ermutigende Botschaft: Jeder kann etwas tun, um anderen zu helfen. Als Wirtschaftsprofessor aus Bangladesch erkannte er, dass bereits wenige Dollar den Weg zur Freiheit ebnen können oder aber zu lebenslanger Abhängigkeit führen, wenn sie fehlen. Deshalb gründete er eine Bank für die Armen, die Grameen Bank, die Kredite an diejenigen vergibt, die sonst abgewiesen werden. Mit über 2300 Filialen und fast 7 Millionen Kreditnehmern, von denen 97 Prozent Frauen sind, hat die Grameen Bank vielen Menschen ein Leben ohne ständige Existenzsorgen ermöglicht. Yunus geht in diesem Buch weiter und kritisiert „traditionelle“ Unternehmen, die sich ausschließlich auf Profitmaximierung konzentrieren und dadurch globale Probleme wie Armut und Umweltverschmutzung verschärfen. Er plädiert für soziales Unternehmertum, das sozialen Nutzen schafft und zeigt, dass Wirtschaft für die Menschen da sein sollte. Wenn wir solche Unternehmen unterstützen und unsere Kaufkraft nutzen, können wir die Armut auf diesem Planeten bekämpfen – das ist die Vision des Friedensnobelpreisträgers.