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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

From Consumption to Production We need to change our perspective on the problem: Seeing through a consumption lens orients us toward an arbitrary, and unacceptably-low-by-Western-standards poverty line. In the social enterprise and impact investment space, reliance on the “individual as consumer” frame can perhaps be traced back to C.K.