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Now everybody agrees that thyroid cancers are sky high, and that Chernobyl evacuees suffer the trauma of relocated peoples everywhere: higher levels of anxiety, depression, alcoholism, unemployment and, importantly, disrupted social networks.

Their brand of social enterprise means that they require a lot of civic engagement, so they invest heavily in providing local services, like dealing with home violence, going after petty criminals, treating addicts, and keeping drugs out of the local markets where they are, and, of course, protecting people from other criminal organizations.

They, as social enterprises do, have created a moral and ethical code that they advertise around, and they have very strict recruiting practices.

But also that it illustrates how disability and blindness sort of cuts across ethnic, social, racial, economic lines.

It's about creating a social impact.

We do need to engage, though, in social fiction to make it happen.

Another big change for the worse in the status of the elderly is the breaking of social ties with age, because older people, their children, and their friends, all move and scatter independently of each other many times during their lives.

I'm here today to talk about social change, not a new therapy or a new intervention or a new way of working with kids or something like that, but a new business model for social change, a new way of tackling the problem.

Now, of course, we care about the social value.

Social Finance, the organization I helped set up, cares about social stuff.

The idea is called the social impact bond.

Now, the social impact bond is simply saying, if we can get the government to agree, that we can create a contract where they only pay if it worked.

But actually, there's a lot of people who, if they're given the chance, would love to invest in something that does social good.

So in March 2010, we signed the first social impact bond with the Ministry of Justice around Peterborough Prison.

Investors get two opportunities: for the first time, they can invest in social change.

They're going to have to care in the social program, but if this builds a track record over five or 10 years, then you can widen that investor community as more people have confidence in the product.

Social impact bonds work great for any area where there is at the moment very expensive provision that produces poor outcomes for people.

There are now 13 social impact bonds in Britain, and amazing levels of interest in this idea all over the world.

So David Cameron's put 20 million pounds into a social outcomes fund to support this idea.

There is, at the moment, a stale debate going on very often: state's better, public sector's better, private sector's better, social sector's better, for a lot of these programs.

Actually, for creating social change, we need to bring in the expertise from all of those parties in order to make this work.

This leaves us with a way that people can invest in social change.

We've met thousands, possibly millions of people, who want the opportunity to invest in social change.

But research shows that our behavior is collectively shaped by a variety of influences, including the brain and its neurotransmitters, our hormones, and various social factors.

They are self-aware, they are predictive, reactive and social.

There are people who argue that today's innovation is all about social media and silly games, with nowhere near the transformational power of the Industrial Revolution.

So if you're wearing it under pants or a skirt or a sari, it's really obvious that you're wearing a prosthetic limb, and in societies where there's social stigma around being disabled, people are particularly acute about this.

Some of the first studies that we ran in this area looked at helping behavior, something social psychologists call "pro-social behavior."

Social mobility, things we really care about, physical health, social trust, all go down as inequality goes up.

Similarly, negative things in social collectives and societies, things like obesity, and violence, imprisonment, and punishment, are exacerbated as economic inequality increases.

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