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Title Creative capitalism : a conversation with Bill Bill Gates, Warren Warren Buffett, and other economic leaders / edited by Michael Michael Kinsley with Conor Gregory Clarke ; with contributions from Abhijit Banerjee .. [and others]..

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, [2008]
©2008

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 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  330.12 CRE    Check Shelf
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Edition First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.
Description xv, 315 pages ; 23 cm
Contents A new approach to capitalism / Bill Gates -- Creative capitalism: the cheat sheet / Michael Kinsley -- Bill Gates and Warren Buffett discuss creative capitalism -- Creative capitalism: a starting critique / Michael Kinsley -- The case for Creative capitalism / Ed Glaeser -- But wait! Can't the poor decide for themselves? / Gregory Clark -- Let old-fashioned capitalism help the poor / William Easterly -- How capitalism can really get creative / Steven Landsburg -- Lets move beyond Milton Friedman's icy purity / Ed Glaeser -- Why Creative capitalism would make things worse / Richard Posner -- Can corporations that do good really compete? / Gary Becker -- A reply to Richard Posner: reform comes from the bottom up / Ed Glaeser -- A reply to Ed Glaeser: what kind of firm are we talking about? / Richard Posner -- Is Creative capitalism illegal? / John Quiggin -- Can a corporation do good without fear of Carl Icahn? / Ronald J. Gilson in an email exchange with Michael Kinsley -- 10 points about profit / Martin Martin Wolf -- Can you be creative and still be a capitalist? / Matthew Bishop -- Why creative capitalism gets in the way of democracy / Robert Reich -- No, creative capitalism will only make capitalism stronger / Paul Ormerod -- Old-fashioned capitalism is moral enough / William Easterly -- To Bill Gates's critics: you're making perfect the enemy of the good / Elizabeth Stuart -- The problem with Bill Gates: do as I say, not as I did / Clive Crook -- The problem with Friedman: a lack of imagination / Brad DeLong -- A quick reply to DeLong: where's the harm? / Clive Crook -- To capitalism's defenders: don't be so defensive / Matthew Bishop -- A response to Stuart: if not profits, what? / William Easterly -- Why not experiment? / Paul Ormerod -- Capitalism works because it's self-correcting / William Easterly -- Pure vs. creative capitalism: a false choice / Ed Glaeser -- What are we talking about? / Steven Landsburg -- In defense of a good reputation / Michael Kremer -- Creative capitalism has its first tool / Loretta Michaels -- Why isn't regular capitalism good enough? / Steven Landsburg -- You can make profits and save the poor / Kremer -- Creative capitalism is not philanthropy / Thierry Lefebvre -- Just do the right kind of lobbying / John Williamson -- My version of the right kind / Nancy Birdsall -- Just tax the rich / John Roemer -- A capitalist knows who to call / Abhijit Banerjee -- Does foreign aid create weak states? / Kremer -- Yes, but weak states can be coaxed creatively / Eric Werker -- How the aid industry got creative / Nancy Birdsall -- Even government can be creative / Michael Kremer -- Don't change capitalism, expand it / Kyle Chauvin -- The lesson of history / Gregory Clark -- Bill Gates: the right place at the right time / Nancy Koehn -- What makes capitalism work? / Jagdish Bhagwati -- You want creative capitalism> Try this / Lawrence Summers -- A reply to Summers: yes, it's a fair warning / Vernon Smith -- Maximizing whose profit? / Justin Fox -- A brief detour on efficient markets / Michael Kinsley & Lawrence Summers -- What makes creative capitalism hard? / Esther Duflo -- Does being recognized as a good citizen make a difference? / Tim Hartford -- Foundations could use the kick of creative capitalism / Alexander Friedman -- A reply to Friedman: there's no such thing as a free lunch / Steven Landsburg -- Prove that it works, and it will catch on / Clive Crook -- Bill Gates Foundation to the rescue! / Tracy Williams, Michael Deich, and Josh Daniel -- A reply to the Foundation: You're out of touch / Gregory Clark -- Another reply to the Foundation: What are you saying? / Steven Landsburg -- Let us explain ourselves / Williams, Deich, Daniel -- The Sears solution / David Vogel -- Reply to Vogel: the demand for virtue is rising / Conor Gregory Clarke -- A reply to Gregory Clarke: let's not be too cynical / David Vogel -- The real blind spots of today's capitalists / Matt Miller -- The bad side effects of forcing good behavior / Edmund S. Phelps -- Altruists are like sadomasochists / Richard Posner -- What Bill Gates really means / Martin Wolf -- What would Adam Smith do? / Clive Crook -- Putting creativity back into creative capitalism / John Quiggin -- The social responsibility of business / Milton Friedman -- What's so bad about poverty? / Richard Posner -- Companies as citizens / Michael Kinsley -- Good company / Clive Crook.
Summary Bill Bill Gates is more than the world's most successful capitalist; he's also the world's biggest philanthropist. Bill Gates has approached philanthropy the same way he revolutionized computer software: with a fierce ambition to change the rules of the game. That's why at the 2008 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Bill Gates advocated a creative capitalism in which big corporations, the distinguishing feature of the modern global economy, integrate doing good into their way of doing business. This controversial new idea is discussed and debated by the more than forty contributors to this book, among them three Nobel laureates and two former U.S. cabinet secretaries. Edited by author and columnist Michael Michael Kinsley, the book started as a first-of-its-kind online conversation that brought together some of the world's best minds to engage Bill Gates's challenge. From Warren Warren Buffett, who seconds Bill Gates's analysis, to Lawrence Summers, who worries about the consequences of multiple corporate objectives, the essays cover a broad spectrum of opinion.--From publisher description.
Subject Capitalism.
Added Author Kinsley, Michael E.
Banerjee, Abhijit V.
Gates, Bill, 1955-
Glaeser, Edward L. (Edward Ludwig), 1967-
Clark, Gregory, 1957-
Easterly, William, 1957-
Landsburg, Steven E., 1954-
Posner, Richard A.
Becker, Gary S. (Gary Stanley), 1930-2014
Quiggin, John.
Gilson, Ronald J., 1946-
Wolf, Martin, 1946-
Bishop, Matthew, 1964-
Reich, Robert B.
Ormerod, Paul.
Stuart, Elizabeth, 1971-
Crook, Clive.
DeLong, Brad.
Kremer, Michael, 1964-
Michaels, Loretta.
Lefebvre, Thierry.
Williamson, John, 1937-2021
Birdsall, Nancy.
Roemer, John E.
Banerjee, Abhijit.
Werker, Eric.
Chauvin, Kyle.
Koehn, Nancy F. (Nancy Fowler), 1959-
Bhagwati, Jagdish N., 1934-
Summers, Lawrence H.
Smith, Vernon L.
Fox, Justin, 1964-
Duflo, Esther, 1972-
Hartford, Tim.
Friedman, Alexander.
Williams, Tracy, active 1973-1974.
Deich, Michael.
Daniel, Josh.
Vogel, David, 1944-
Clarke, Conor, 1985-
Miller, Matthew, 1961-
Phelps, Edmund S.
Friedman, Milton, 1912-2006.
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