Craig Shapiro
president at GOOD
- December 8, 2008 • 3:18 pm PST
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I just watched a fantastic interview of Michael Kinsley on Charlie Rose.
He recently published a book called Creative Capitalism: A Conversation. The project started out as a web experiment made from a collection of essays and commentary on capitalism,
philanthropy and global development.
The book takes as its
starting point a speech Bill Gates delivered this January at the World
Economic Forum in Davos. In it, he said that many of the world's
problems are too big for philanthropy--even on the scale of the Gates
Foundation. And he said that the free-market capitalist system itself
would have to solve them.
In the interview, Michael references Fannie and Freddie as examples of companies with a double bottom line that ended in disaster.
Off the top of my head, I am trying to think of the antithesis of that; and Google is the first that comes to mind.
Does anyone else have examples (either pro or con)?
He recently published a book called Creative Capitalism: A Conversation. The project started out as a web experiment made from a collection of essays and commentary on capitalism,
philanthropy and global development.
The book takes as its
starting point a speech Bill Gates delivered this January at the World
Economic Forum in Davos. In it, he said that many of the world's
problems are too big for philanthropy--even on the scale of the Gates
Foundation. And he said that the free-market capitalist system itself
would have to solve them.
In the interview, Michael references Fannie and Freddie as examples of companies with a double bottom line that ended in disaster.
Off the top of my head, I am trying to think of the antithesis of that; and Google is the first that comes to mind.
Does anyone else have examples (either pro or con)?
