Praise for Be the Solution

“Be the Solution is out on a frontier of thought where no one has traveled before. It redefines the word 'prescient.' A breathtaking integration of futuristic thinking about economics, politics, social justice, and human happiness, it is nothing less than a blueprint for a transcendent tomorrow for humanity. Once or twice in a lifetime you come across a vein of thinking like this – one that that makes you feel as if life and the world are suddenly new again. The inspiring future Be the Solution paints for us will be the very motivation we have needed to pursue it.”
– Dan Palotta, author of Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential

“This is a desperately needed synthesis of the work of the world’s most insightful thinkers on how to solve the problems of poverty. It lays bare fallacies in policies that annually misdirect billions of dollars into development of initiatives that won’t work. And it offers situation-contingent guidelines for programs that will. A must read.”
– Clayton M. Christensen, Professor, Harvard Business School and author of The Innovator’s Dilemma

“Michael Strong and his coauthors sketch out a provocative and appealing vision of what you might call ‘bleeding heart libertarianism.’ ... Regardless of where you fit on theideological map, they will challenge the way you think about social progress. So if you’re interested in how to make the world around you a better place, take the challenge and read this book.”
– Brink Lindsey, VP for Research, Cato Institute and author of The Age of Abundance

“If you want to contribute to making a better world and you have an indomitable entrepreneurial spirit, this is the book for you. Ours is the age of doing good by doing well. The notion that market competition is all about greed is just a monumental error that you can help a new generation to avoid.”
– Herbert Gintis, Santa Fe Institute and Central European University

“In the past, many believed you either went into ‘public service’ to do good, or you ‘went into business’ to make money. Few realized that the long-term success of business depends on serving people, not making money. Few realized that perhaps the best way to serve the public was through free enterprise. Whole Foods Market founder John Mackey, visionary thinker Michael Strong, micro lender Muhammad Yunus, and a few others understand these truths. Be the Solution is the best single book to read to understand the emerging ways in which entrepreneurs can change the world.”
– Gary Hoover, serial entrepreneur, founder of Hoover’s business information service, Hooversworld.com

“Michael Strong speaks the truth. A must read for our new American government.”
– Sam Wyly, founder, Green Mountain Energy and author of 1,000 Dollars and an Idea

“Entrepreneurs are bringers of a new tomorrow who solve today’s problem with tomorrow’s solution. Capitalism is the creative unfoldment and evolutionary orchestration of entrepreneurship, the spirit of entrepreneurs. Capitalism maximally facilitates the optimal utilization of the greatest asset in Nature—the resourceful human mind with its creativity and ingenuity.

In Be the Solution, Michael Strong, John Mackey, and other visionary authors organically develops a new framework for capitalism so that the beneficent and transformational potentials of entrepreneurship and free market can be powerfully unleashed for societal good. Be the Solution cogently argues that the essential feature and primary virtue of capitalism is not profit-motivated exchange of commodities but voluntary exchange of abilities. Be the Solution demonstrates that when capitalism is rightly framed and entrepreneurship is properly nurtured in a culture of freedom, the entrepreneurial spirit of humanity will bring forth new innovative solutions to many of the persistent and pervasive problems of the world.

At once informative and inspirational, Be the Solution will provoke you not only to think outside the existing paradigms but also to act for the realization of your vision by invoking in you the highest value and the innermost virtue of humanity — freedom and creativity.”
– Yasuhiko Genku Kimura, Founder and Chairman, Vision-In-Action, Author, Think Kosmically Act Globally

“This is a very thoughtful and timely book that asks to look around – and to look within – the amazing opportunities that entrepreneurship offers to the world. I recommend this book to anyone interested in finding solutions to the current crisis.”
– Giancarlo Ibárgüen, Executive President, Universidad Francisco Marroquin

“Be the Solution will undoubtedly be added to my ‘must read’ book list for those who inquire about the causes of world poverty and what can be done to solve these problems.”
– Philip Sansone, President and Executive Director, Whole Planet Foundation

“Perhaps more than ever before, young people today are motivated by the desire to make the world a better place. Unfortunately, many have little idea about how to do it and their educational studies provide them with little direction. In contrast, this book is a road map about how we can get from where we are to where we want to be – to a more peaceful, more prosperous, and more environmentally sound world. Plus, it is exciting, uplifting, and adventurous. Indeed, it provides the recipe for a better world.”
– Dr. James Gwartney, Co-Author, Economic Freedom of the World Annual Reports, and Gus A. Stavros Eminent Scholar Chair at Florida State University

“Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why,' this book dreams things that never were and asks, 'why not' . It is a tour de force of the future called principled capitalism.”
– Dr. Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, founder and Chairman of the Spiritual Enterprise Institute