Uprooting Poverty Creating Wealth Making Economic Choices

This book is about freedom-freedom to think, freedom to choose, freedom to achieve at your potential. Freedom is a gift we give ourselves. Without freedom, we are slaves. With it, we can literally change the world. Come along on a journey that will challenge your abilities to overcome obstacles. You'll also discover how demand-side economics and the art of thinking critically can help you increase your health and your wealth. Critical thinking will help you rid yourself of every hindrance that has ever held you back. As you make wiser economic choices, you will become self-reliant, the "master of your fate, the captain of your soul."

This book takes a unique approach to the topic of poverty reduction, primarily employing an international business framework as opposed to the usual economic or political lens. Some of the key ideas explored in the book include: poverty is primarily the lack of choices, not the lack of material possessions; attacking inequality of opportunity might be a more effective means to reduce poverty than attaching inequality of wealth; political systems matter, but individuals and for-profit firms also have a vital and indispensable role in helping to create the wealth needed to reduce poverty; and an effective corporate social responsibility strategy to help reduce poverty may include finding innovative and creative ways to operate profitably in areas of the world where poverty is currently robbing too many people of the opportunity to live their version of the good life. Building on such ideas, the book advocates for private companies to expand operations into the least developed regions of the world as part of their corporate social responsibility programs and to reframe the debates away from ones focused on exploitation and economic nationalism to one of creating opportunities across political borders.