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Social Entrepreneurship: What everyone needs to know
David Bornstein and Susan Davis
“Change is constant;
Change is inevitable,
The need for change is urgent.”
These are one of the reasons why Social Entrepreneurship came to be. Many have responded to the loads of problems occurring today by tuning out the world, getting lost in distractions, ignoring these facts, and adopting an attitude of pessimistic detachment. Many would initiate a movement of change but will feel overwhelmed along the way, could not figure out where to start, or get discouraged by realizing these problems are too big to be solved. Some would also find ways to respond with creativity, energy, and even optimism by attacking global, national, and local problems with game changing ideas and new innovative tools they come up …show more content…
Academics, practitioners, and philanthropists characterize it variously as a profession, field, and movement. The ideas were Greg Dees drew thoughts from were Jean Baptiste Say and Joseph A. Schumpeter, both economists in their profession. Jean and Joseph argued that entrepreneurs improve the productive capacity of society and provide the “creative destruction” that propels economic change. Dees empowers and believes that entrepreneurs improve the productive capacity of society and provide the “creative destruction” that propels economic, Dees holds that social entrepreneurs to do the same for social change, creating new combinations of people and resources that significantly improve society’s capacity to address