In our efforts to reduce poverty and advance human flourishing, we are
often quick to glorify the "noble nonprofit," while viewing
entrepreneurship and enterprise as amoral at best. In Entrepreneurship
for Human Flourishing, Chris Horst and Peter Greer of HOPE International
argue that such a posture neglects the very engine of human
flourishing--whatever their size or form, businesses play a central role
in the war on poverty. With personal stories of everyday businesspeople,
Greer and Horst assert the integral role of free enterprise and
entrepreneurship in creating opportunities for individuals to experience
what it means to be fully human. For when that happens, they argue,
people and societies flourish.