The speech given by Bill Gates at last year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in which he called on capitalism to devise creative solutions to reduce social problems around the world, is the subject of discussion in the book Creative Capitalism, by Michael Kinsley and Conor Clarke, notes a book review in The Wall Street Journal.

In the book, economists, journalists, and executives of nonprofit organizations offer assessments of Mr. Gates’s speech and its theme of social entrepreneurship. Leslie Lenkowsky, a professor at Indiana University and a Chronicle of Philanthropy columnist, says the most interesting idea in the book is that “‘philanthropic business activity is in fact at odds with what is best about capitalism itself and therefore counterproductive.”

You can read an article about Mr. Gates’s speech and a column by Mr. Lenkowsky on creative capitalism in the Chronicle.

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