One of the more interesting conversations that occurred at Davos 2008 was the conversations between Bill Gates and Mahmood Younis in which Gates first mentioned "Creative Capitalism" Michael Kinsley, Editor-at-Large of the Guardian of London has taken up the theme and started an on-line book experiment under the title of Creative Capitalism: a conversation. What attracted me to this blog was the transcript of a luncheon conversation between Warren Buffett and Bill Gates that Kinsley put on for them. In it Gates flounders around trying to describe "creative capitalism." The transcript of the entire luncheon is fascinating reading as well as the comments the blog attracted. I will be following this thread as it really takes the idea of capitalism into the realm of social inclusion - an directional movement from the market rules coterie. Here is Gates opening statement....