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Unique institute unites capitalists who want to save the world | The Raw Story

Unique institute unites capitalists who want to save the world | The Raw Story:

Unique institute unites capitalists who want to save the world

By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, June 30, 2013 17:41 EDT
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The consultant holds a russet ankle boot in his right hand, gesturing as if it were a conductor’s baton.
Robert Reich, a University of Colorado business professor, is providing some blunt-spoken mentoring at the Unreasonable Institute, a summer camp for capitalists who want to change the world.
Facing Reich, a self-confessed serial entrepreneur, is Patrick Woodyard, whose Tennessee-based company markets shoes made by Peruvian craftspeople under the slogan “Join us, and wear change.”
Woodyard has told Reich that with each pair of shoes he ships, he includes information about the makers he hopes to help out of poverty.

“If you tried to convince me now that I should buy this shoe because of Pedro, I would say, ‘What