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The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

29 reviews
David C Korten

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003

Into the mess, out of the mess
The planet's in trouble. That means we're in trouble. Korten gives us a history lesson, then describes our current context and ends by pointing toward a sustainable future. Rape of the environment and practicing highly distorted forms of capitalism and globilization must end. The author's scenarios are accurate and his conclusions sound. Some reviewers have been disappointed that The Great ...

The Post Corporate World: Life After Capitalism

16 reviews
David C Korten

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2000

Capitalism Is Cancer
Many people have winced at Korton's now ecological turn. They would rather he simply kept to pure economics, facts and theories, and dump the New Age spin he picked up from biologist Mae-Wan Ho. They were hoping that "The Post-Corporate World" would simply be Part II of his last sizzler, "When Corporations Ruled the World." They see the soft-headed ecological metaphor as a meaningless ...

When Corporations Rule the World

72 reviews
David Korten

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1996

Yet Another Timely Review
You know, sometimes the synchronicities of my life amaze even myself. Here I started reading this book "When Corporations Rule The World" by David Korten, and all of a sudden, the US economy tanks and all sorts of corporations and banks start going under faster than Congress' credibility. And sure, we all had been watching it happening for awhile, being built up inside yet another unsustainable ...

Getting to the 21st Century: Voluntary Action and the Global Agenda (Kumarian Press Library of Management for ...
David C. Korten

Kumarian Press, 1990

A critique of current development policies and ideologies that provides alternative approaches for building a sustainable and just society for the new millennium.