When Corporations Rule the World.
Title:
When Corporations Rule the World.
Author:
Korten, David C.
ISBN:
9781626562882
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Edition:
3rd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (433 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- A Choice for Life -- Prologue: A Personal Journey -- Introduction: Capitalism and the Suicide Economy -- PART I: COWBOYS IN A SPACESHIP -- 1 From Hope to Crisis -- 2 End of the Open Frontier -- 3 The Growth Illusion -- PART II: CONTEST FOR SOVEREIGNTY -- 4 Rise of Corporate Power in America -- 5 Assault of the Corporate Libertarians -- 6 The Decline of Democratic Pluralism -- 7 Illusions of the Cloud Minders -- PART III: CORPORATE COLONIALISM -- 8 Dreaming of Global Empires -- 9 Building Elite Consensus -- 10 Buying Out Democracy -- 11 Marketing the World -- 12 Adjusting the Poor -- 13 Guaranteeing Corporate Rights -- PART IV: A ROGUE FINANCIAL SYSTEM -- 14 The Money Game -- 15 Predatory Finance -- 16 Corporate Cannibalism -- 17 Managed Competition -- PART V: NO PLACE FOR PEOPLE -- 18 Race to the Bottom -- 19 The End of Ineffic -- 20 People with No Place -- PART VI: TO RECLAIM OUR POWER -- 21 The Ecological Revolution -- 22 Economies Are for Living -- 23 An Awakened Civil Society -- 24 Agenda for Democracy -- Conclusion: A Living Economy for Living Earth -- Epilogue: Our Need for Meaning -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- About the Author.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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