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Due to coincidence imposed by the library queue, I recently read these two books back-to-back.
First, an unflinching look at the ravages inflicted when Friedmanite free-market capitalism is brutally imposed upon an economy, particularly in times of crisis or upheaval.
Then, a proposal from the Nobel Peace Prize-winning "banker to the poor", for a new type of self-sustaining, non-dividend-paying 'social business' that will work alongside and compete with typical for-profit enterprises, but will be established to address a specific humanitarian need and will be evaluated by the success in serving that need.
I'm glad I read them in
this order, as the first informed me and riled me up, and the second
inspired me and restored some of my faith in humankind.
