Afterword. The Power of Social Entrepreneurship

Abstract

I want to contribute a historical perspective. There is a set of changes going on that just does not capture the shutter speed of the political process through the press. These changes are much more important, and I think much more hopeful, than what we read about. And what are these changes? They are in the citizen half of the world. The citizen half of the world has, over the last two-and-a-half decades, gone through the same structural transformation that business went through over the course of the preceding three centuries. This is a historically unprecedented event, and it has reached a scale now of momentum, size, and energy that it no longer can be ignored in terms of people’s careers, or by business or government. If you are a scholar or journalist, and your job is to interpret the world and you do not understand this change, you are at risk of not doing a very good job, simply because we have now reached this scale of momentum.