‘Cre­ative cap­i­tal­ism’ is a term pop­u­larised by Bill Gates at the World Eco­nomic Forum in Davos, 2008. Here Gates deliv­ered a speech say­ing that many of the world’s prob­lems are “too big for phil­an­thropy” and that the free-market cap­i­tal­ist sys­tem itself would have to solve them.

Cre­ative Cap­i­tal­ism: A Con­ver­sa­tion has a tran­script of Gates’ speech but it also has much, much more: it is also “a col­lec­tion of essays and com­men­tary on cap­i­tal­ism, phil­an­thropy and global devel­op­ment” by many of the most pop­u­lar eco­nom­ics writ­ers around (although the site is now archived as the book has been released).

Michael Kins­ley, colum­nist at Time and author of the book based on the site, dis­cusses the project in a Microsoft Research pro­gram that, unfor­tu­nately, looks inter­est­ing but I can’t watch due to browser restric­tions on my cur­rent computer.