How do we mesh encouraging creativity and entrepreneurial spirit with providing fair opportunities for all?
I pose the next question mostly as a challenge to business and social entrepreneurs to reflect on a conundrum emerging from dialogue about poverty. The American paradigm views entrepreneurship, creativity, growth, and prosperity as tightly linked, and our acceptance of inequality in life outcomes – whether for individuals or communities – reflects our sense that it is an essential, probably inevitable concomitant of freedom, progress, and invention. Economic growth is seen to depend critically on factors that fuel an entrepreneurial spirit. However, assumptions around the power of financial incentives and free enterprise are not universally shared, and at a minimum engender considerable unease in many quarters. Some label unrestricted free enterprise as worship of the market, a goad to selfish pursuits, and a force undermining traditional values and group solidarity. New thinking – building on European traditions of a welfare state, discussions of the right to social services, efforts
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