And her story was shocking the woman, who was in her early 30s, bought the bamboo she needed for the stools with borrowed money and repaid it by giving the stools she made to the loan shark. He paid her just 10 cents a day for her...
People should not come to the bank, the bank should come to the people
Philanthropic money has only one life
Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized. Are you putting people, planet and profit at the same level?
What good does the theory of economics do if it is not working for people?
We have designed a capitalist system wrong. We assume human beings are one-dimensional; all they do is make money, so we ve created a money-centric world.
Money commands everything because that s our interpretation of capitalism... what kind of world is that? It s a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.
In the United States I saw how the market liberates the individual and allows people to be free to make personal choices. But the biggest drawback was that the market always pushes things to the side of the powerful. I thought the poor should be able to take...
I am not a capitalist in the simplistic left right sense. But I do believe in the power of the global free-market economy and in using capitalist tools. I believe in the power of the free market and the power of capital in the marketplace. I also believe...
This is the problem with traditional capitalism, which is such a creative and effective force for good in so many ways. Capitalism has created poverty by focusing exclusively on profit. It built a fairy tale of prosperity for all mdash;a dream that was doomed never to come true....
