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[http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/paul_collier.html Paul Collier’s] book [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bottom_Billion The Bottom Billion] (an [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0195311450/ref=sib_dp_ptu#reader-link excerpt)] shows what is happening to the poorest people in the world, and offers ideas for opening up opportunities to all. | [http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/paul_collier.html Paul Collier’s] book [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bottom_Billion The Bottom Billion] (an [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0195311450/ref=sib_dp_ptu#reader-link excerpt)] shows what is happening to the poorest people in the world, and offers ideas for opening up opportunities to all. | ||
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See also Globalization and Entrepreneurship
A range of ideas on economics exist, from Free Marketeers (an idea in ascendancy in the US for some time, though currently in disrepute), to social entrepreneurs (who seek to use markets to improve the lives of poor people, see the UCSC Atlas of Global Inequality and Gapminder to get some sense of this), to the idea of suicidal capitalism (the idea that growth for growth's sake on a finite planet will be catastrophic).
People
Muhammad Yunus founder of the Grameen Bank, which makes micro-loans all over the world, empowering people in many ways, not least of which to give them the option on not exhausting their local habitats in order to survive in the short term. Yunus was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. His book.
Books
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage by Daniel C. Esty, Andrew S. Winston
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future [1] by Bill McKibben
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins. Download free chapters.
Ecological Economics: Principles And Applications Herman E. Daly, Joshua Farley
Video
Green Collar jobs on PBS Now (video)
PBS News Hour segment on venture capital flowing to green businesses. 6/08
Jacqueline Novogratz shares stories of how "patient capital" (microfinance, Africa) can bring sustainable jobs, goods, services -- and dignity -- to the world's poorest. TEDtalk video
Paul Collier’s book The Bottom Billion (an excerpt) shows what is happening to the poorest people in the world, and offers ideas for opening up opportunities to all.
Blogs
