Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth - Softcover

Korten, David C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1605093750 ISBN 13: 9781605093758

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2010

Synopsis

Nearly two years after the economic meltdown, joblessness and foreclosures are still endemic, Wall Street executives are once again getting massive bonuses, and our leaders in Washington lack the will to make desperately needed fundamental changes to the economy. Change will have to come from below. Agenda for a New Economy is the handbook for that revolution.

In this revised and updated edition David Korten has fleshed out his vision of the alternative to the corporate Wall Street economy: a Main Street economy based on locally owned, community-oriented “living enterprises” whose success is measured as much by their positive impact on people and the environment as by their positive balance sheet. We will lose nothing in the process because, as Korten ably demonstrates, the supposed services Wall Street offers are simply a con game. And Korten now offers more in-depth advice on how to mount a grassroots campaign to bring about an economy based on shared prosperity, ecological stewardship, and citizen democracy.

About this title

From the Publisher:

A Declaration of Independence from Wall Street

"At last, a book by one of our most brilliant economic thinkers that outlines the real causes of--and solutions to--the current economic crisis."
--John Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

"The most important book to emerge thus far on the economic crisis."
--Peter Barnes, cofounder of Working Assets and author of Capitalism 3.0

"David Korten has provided an economic blueprint for the 21st century."
--Judy Wicks, cofounder and chair, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies

"No one should be surprised that David Korten is the first great thinker to assemble a detailed road map for a new economy where people, the planet, and communities come first."
--John Cavanagh, Director of the Institute for Policy Studies

About the Author:

David Korten is president and founder of the People-Centered Development Forum, chair of the board of YES! magazine, and a founding board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies. He is the author of The Great Turning, The Post-Corporate World, and When Corporations Rule the World.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1605093750
• ISBN 13: 9781605093758
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 336