Bill Gates is known as the world’s most successful capitalist and is less famous for being the world’s biggest philanthropist. In a meeting at the 2008 World Economic Forum in Switzerland, he advocated creative capitalism in which big corporations would integrate doing good into their way of doing business.
In this fifth book by author Michael Kinsley, Creative Capitalism, Gate’s controversial new idea is discussed and debated by forty contributors, among them three Nobel laureates and two former U.S. cabinet secretaries. It brings together people from Warren Buffett to Lawrence Summers and covers a wide spectrum of opinions. These vary from Buffett, who seconds Bill Gates’s analysis, to Summers who worries about the consequences of multiple corporate objectives.
Creative Capitalism challenges the conventional wisdom about the United States' economic system and presents a road map for the new global economy that is emerging as capitalism itself adapts itself once again to a changing world.
About the authors
Michael Kinsley was an editor at The New Republic, the host of CNN’s Crossfire and founder of Slate. Conor Clark is a fellow at the Atlantic Monthly and a former editor at The Guardian.
Kinsley, Michael, editor with Conor Clark. Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Biffet and Other Economic Leaders. NY,NYC: Simon and Schuster, 2009.
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It all sounds good. Big companies doing good and actually contributing. "he advocated creative capitalism in which big corporations would integrate doing good into their way of doing business." That is what Bill Gates believes in. I wonder ... how many windows licenses do armies all over the world buy? So how can you speak up for something like this while you are making money from war and from people dying?
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