When Corporations Rule the World (Kumarian Press Books for a World That Works) - Hardcover

Korten, David C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1887208003 ISBN 13: 9781887208000

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1992

Synopsis

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 of its own existence.

The bestselling 1995 edition of When Corporations Rule the World helped launch a global resistance against corporate domination. In this twentieth-anniversary edition, Korten shares insights from his personal experience as a participant in the growing movement for a New Economy. A new introduction documents the further concentration of wealth and corporate power since 1995 and explores why our institutions resolutely resist even modest reform. A new conclusion chapter outlines high-leverage opportunities for breakthrough change.

About this title

Book Description:

The twentieth-anniversary edition of the book that helped launch the anticorporate movement examines how much corporate control has grown and the new challenges for those who work for a more economically equitable society.

About the Author:

David C. Korten is a cofounder and board chair of YES! Magazine, a cochair of the New Economy Working Group, the founder and president of the Living Economies Forum, a member of the Club of Rome, a founding board member emeritus of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, a former associate of the International Forum on Globalization, and a former Harvard Business School professor.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1887208003
• ISBN 13: 9781887208000
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96