num_pages: 144
description: A new movement is afoot that promises to save the world by applying the magic of the market to the challenges of social change. But in this hard-hitting, controversial exposé, Michael Edwards shows that business is ill-equipped to attack the causes of poverty, inequality, violence, and discrimination. Achieving fundamental social transformation requires cooperation rather than competition, collective action more than individual effort, and support for long-term, systemic solutions instead of immediate results. With a vested interest in the status quo, business can promise only limited small change. It’s time to turn away from the false promise of the market and reassert the independence of global citizen action.
language: English
title: Small Change: Why Business Won't Save the World
publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers