Glasses without dollar signs:   Social business as a path to world peace

“Human beings are not born to work for anybody else,” Muhammad Yunus tells me, words tumbling out in a near stream-of-consciousness.

“For millions of years that we were on the planet, we never worked for anybody,” he says, his eyes sparkling. “We are go-getters. We are farmers. We are hunters. We lived in caves and we found our own food, we didn’t send job applications.”

Professor Muhammad Yunus is a man that genuinely cares about human beings and their experience of living. He believes we are all born entrepreneurs, not mere workers and certainly not just ‘consumers.’ He believes that our modern economic system misunderstands human nature—sells it short—and that this is the cause of many of the problems facing our economic system. And he believes that every person should have access to credit as a fundamental human right.

The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Bangladeshi economist who pioneered the concept of microcredit, describes himself as “fundamentally optimistic about the future.” And sitting down with Professor Yunus at the 2018 Rotary International Presidential Peace Conference, it is immediately evidentIt’s a powerful combination of beliefs, which are explored in depth in his latest book