Slate.com today stumbled upon the possibility that, maybe, just maybe, greed might be able to solve some, if not most, of the world's really big problems.
Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran's story notes that taking nonprofits and attempting to calculate which are doing the best jobs has transformed the nonprofit world from "sleepy, underresourced, and inefficient to market-minded, well-funded and eager to change the world."