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COPYRIGHT 2000 Professors World Peace Academy
by David C. Korten
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. and Kumarian Press, Inc., 1999
This is a thought-provoking book that is visionary in its call for a dramatic redesign of our economic system. David Korten's sequel to his When Corporations Rule the World (1995), picks up where his previous writings ended. The "Post-Corporate World" takes the growing threat of social and environmental collapse driven by the excesses of an economic system that is blind to human need as its point of departure. Korten's culprits are multinational corporations who consolidate economic power as he sees them not as perpetuating a market economy but representing a victory of central planning. The author takes aim at the proponents of "Globalization" and puts forth a platform of new global capitalism based upon "healthy markets featuring stakeholder ownership, rooted capital, human-scale enterprises, balanced trade, ethical cultures that nurture social bonding and responsibility; and energy efficient, closed-loop production! consumption systems that function in harmony with local ecosystems."
318 pages, notes and index, hardcover, $27.95
The book is an idealistic call to action, yet strikes a cord that is sure to find a following from the...
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