When Corporations Rule the World

by Korten, David C.

• ISBN13: 9781887208048
• ISBN10: 1887208046
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-05-14
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Summary

When Corporations Rule the World, 2nd Edition explains how economic globalisation has concentrated the power to govern in global corporations and financial markets and detached them from accountability to the human interest. It documents the devastating human and environmental consequences of the successful efforts of these corporations to reconstruct values and institutions everywhere on the planet to serve their own narrow ends. It also reveals why and how millions of people are acting to reclaim their political and economic power from these elitist forces and presents a policy agenda for restoring democracy and rooting economic power in people and communities. This new edition is expanded with new information, including a new preface, a new introduction, a new chapter on The Global Democracy Movement, and a new epilogue. Previous ISBN: 1887298011

Table of Contents

Foreword	xv
Danny Glover
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction: Deepening Crisis---Cause for Hope	1	(10)
Prologue: A Personal Journey	11	(14)
I Cowboys in a Spaceship	25	(32)
From Hope to Crisis	27	(6)
End of the Open Frontier	33	(10)
The Growth Illusion	43	(14)
II Contest for Sovereignty	57	(64)
Rise of Corporate Power in America	59	(16)
Assault of the Corporate Liberatarians	75	(18)
Decline of Democratic Pluralism	93	(14)
Illusions of the Cloud Minders	107	(14)
III Corporate Colonialism	121	(54)
Dreaming of Global Empires	123	(12)
Building Elite Consensus	135	(8)
Buying Out Democracy	143	(8)
Marketing the World	151	(10)
Eliminating the Public Interest	161	(14)
IV A Rogue Financial System	175	(56)
The Money Game	177	(10)
Predatory Finance	187	(10)
Corporate Cannibalism	197	(8)
Managed Competition	205	(16)
No Place for People	221	(10)
V Reclaiming Our Power	231	(54)
The Ecological Revolution	233	(16)
Good Living	249	(16)
Agenda for Change	265	(20)
VI From Corporate Rule to Civil Society	285	(52)
Making Money, Growing Poorer	287	(20)
The Living Democracy Movement	307	(18)
A Civil Society	325	(12)
Epilogue: A Story for Our Time	337	(6)
Notes	343	(23)
Index	366	(17)
About the Author	383