Social entrepreneur Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his efforts to alleviate poverty around the world.
Now, the Bangladeshi economist says it's time to redesign the world's economic system to create a civilization that's based on human values instead of greed, the New York Times reports.
"We need new economic frameworks, systems, structures, and institutions to create a civilization that is built on human values, not greed," Yunus told an audience in Malaysia last week.
"We need to stop the engine that has turned us into money-making robots," he said.
"It is time to get rid of the old ways and introduce an engine that can take us in a new direction."
Yunus, who recently opened a Social Business Center at Malaysia's Sunway University, said universities should have "three zeros" clubs where students can adopt values that won't contribute to the world's problems in the future, the Straits Times reports.
(Malay students are getting a bad rap in the US.)
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