David C Korten: 6 books

As David Korten showed in the first edition of this hard-hitting book, the steps taken to address the financial meltdown ? including pouring trillions of dollars into bailouts for the Wall Street institutions that created the mess ? did nothing to deal with the reality of a failed economic system....

We humans live by stories, says David Korten, and the stories that now govern our society set us on a path to certain self-destruction. In this profound new book, Korten shares the results of his search for a story that reflects the fullness of human knowledge and understanding and provides a guide...

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...

David Korten’s classic bestseller When Corporations Rule the World was one of the first books to articulate the destructive and oppressive nature of the global corporate economy. In The Great Turning he argues that corporate consolidation of power is merely one manifestation of what he calls “Empire”:...

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.  At the end of the 20th century, public attention was focused on a deepening struggle grounded in two sharply divergent world-views and...

Prompted by the 1998 United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Korten's book indicts the world's governments for failing to address growing hunger, housing shortages, unemployment, poverty, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation. He examines the causes of this global crisis and offers...