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9781626562875

When Corporations Rule the World

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    9781626562875

  • ISBN10:

    1626562873

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2015-06-29
  • Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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Summary

Our Choice: Democracy or Corporate Rule

A handful of corporations and financial institutions command an ever-greater concentration of economic and political power in an assault against markets, democracy, and life. It’s a “suicide economy,” says David Korten, that destroys the very foundations of its own existence.

The bestselling 1995 edition of When Corporations Rule the World helped launch a global resistance against corporate domination. In this twentieth-anniversary edition, Korten shares insights from his personal experience as a participant in the growing movement for a New Economy. A new introduction documents the further concentration of wealth and corporate power since 1995 and explores why our institutions resolutely resist even modest reform. A new conclusion chapter outlines high-leverage opportunities for breakthrough change.

Author Biography

David C. Korten is a cofounder and board chair of YES! Magazine, a cochair of the New Economy Working Group, the founder and president of the Living Economies Forum, a member of the Club of Rome, a founding board member emeritus of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, a former associate of the International Forum on Globalization, and a former Harvard Business School professor.

Table of Contents

A Choice for Life
Prologue: A Personal Journey
Introduction: Capitalism and the Suicide Economy
PART I: COWBOYS IN A SPACESHIP
1.
From Hope to Crisis
2.
End of the Open Frontier
3.
The Growth Illusion
PART II: CONTEST FOR SOVEREIGNTY
4.
Rise of Corporate Power in America
5.
Assault of the Corporate Libertarians
6.
The Decline of Democratic Pluralism
7.
Illusions of the Cloud Minders
PART III: CORPORATE COLONIALISM
8.
Dreaming of Global Empires
9.
Building Elite Consensus
10.
Buying Out Democracy
11.
Marketing the World
12.
Adjusting the Poor
13.
Guaranteeing Corporate Rights
PART IV: A ROGUE FINANCIAL SYSTEM
14.
The Money Game
15.
Predatory Finance
16.
Corporate Cannibalism
17.
Managed Competition
PART V: NO PLACE FOR PEOPLE
18.
Race to the Bottom
19.
The End of Inefficiency
20.
People with No Place
PART VI: TO RECLAIM OUR POWER
21.
The Ecological Revolution
22.
Economies Are for Living
23.
An Awakened Civil Society
24.
Agenda for Democracy
Conclusion: A Living Economy for Living Earth
Epilogue: Our Need for Meaning
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author

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