Mounk, Yascha
Summary: A novel focus on "personal responsibility" has transformed political thought and public policy in America and Europe. Since the 1970s, responsibility--which once meant the moral duty to help and support others--has come to suggest an obligation to be self-sufficient. This narrow conception of responsibility has guided recent reforms of the welfare state, making key entitlements conditional on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 361.6 MOUNKYunus, Muhammad
Summary: In A World of Three Zeros, Yunus describes the new civilization emerging from the economic experiments his work has helped to inspire. He explains how global companies like McCain, Renault, Essilor, and Danone got involved with this new economic model through their own social action groups, describes the ingenious new financial tools now funding social businesses, and sketches the legal and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2017