Book by Korten, David C., Alfonso, Felipe B.

Bureaucracy and the Poor: Closing the Gap

Korten, David C.

Alfonso, Felipe B.

Business & Money

Kumarian Press

People-Centered Development: Contributions Toward Theory and Planning Frameworks

Economics

Kumarian Pr

People-Centered Development: Contributions Toward Theory and Planning Frameworks (KUMARIAN PRESS LIBRARY OF MANAGEMENT FOR DEVELOPMENT)

Getting to the 21st century: Voluntary action and the global agenda (Kumarian Press library of management for development)

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

Getting to the 21st Century: Voluntary Action and the Global Agenda

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

From the bestselling author of When Corporations Rule the World; An extensively researched, powerfully argued, eye-opening critique of how today's corporate captialism is destroying the things of real value in the world-like cancer destroys life; Portrays a hopeful future-alternatives to a corporate-dominated and money-ruled world-in showing how to resore health to markets, democracy, and every day life; Offers practical suggestions for individuals who want to contribute to the process of change; Co-published with Kumarian Press There is a deep chasm between the promises of the new global capitalism and the reality of social breakdown, spiritual emptiness, and environmental destruction it is leaving in its wake. In this important book, David Korten makes a compelling and well-documented case that capitalism is actually delivering a fatal blow not only to life, but also to democracy and the market. Among his startling ideas: Capitalism is a pathology that commonly afflicts market economies in the absence of vigilant public oversight. Since the economy internal to a corporation is a planned economy, the current consolidation of economic control under a handful of global corporations is a victory for central planning-not the market economy. The alternative to the new global capitalism is a global system of thriving, healthy market economies that function as extensions of healthy local ecosystems to meet the livelihood needs of people and communities. Radical as such proposals may seem, they actually reflect processes that are steadily gaining momentum around the world. The Post-Corporate World provides a vision of what's needed and what's possible, as well as a detailed agenda for change. Korten shows that to have a just, sustainable and compassionate society, concentrated absentee ownership and footloose speculative capital as embodied in the global, for-profit public corporation must be eliminated in favor of enterprises based on patient, rooted, stakeholder ownership limited to those who have a stake in the firm as a worker, supplier, customer, or member of the community in which it is located. Korten outlines numerous specific actions to free the creative powers of individuals and societies through the realization of real democracy, the local rooting of capital through stakeholder ownership, and a restructuring of the rules of commerce to create ''mindful market'' economies that combine market principles with a culture that nurtures social bonding and responsibility. Like Korten's previous bestseller, When Corporations Rule the World, this provocative book is sure to stimulate national dialogue and debate and inspire a bevy of grassroots discussions and initiatives. The Post-Corporate World presents readers with a profound challenge and an empowering sense of hope.

The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism

ReadHowYouWant

We humans live by stories, says David Korten, and the stories that now govern our society set us on a path to certain self - destruction. In this profound new book, Korten shares the results of his search for a story that reflects the fullness of human knowledge and understanding and provides a guide to action adequate to the needs of our time. Korten calls our current story Sacred Money and Markets. Money, it tells us, is the measure of all worth and the source of all happiness. Earth is simply a source of raw materials. Inequality and environmental destruction are unfortunate but unavoidable. Although many recognize that this story promotes bad ethics, bad science, and bad economics, it will remain our guiding story until replaced by one that aligns with our deepest understanding of the universe and our relationship to it. To guide our path to a viable human future, Korten offers a Sacred Life and Living Earth story grounded in a cosmology that affirms we are living beings born of a living Earth itself born of a living universe. Our health and well - being depend on an economy that works in partnership with the processes by which Earth's community of life maintains the conditions of its own existence - and ours. Offering a hopeful vision, Korten lays out the transformative impact adopting this story will have on every aspect of human life and society.

Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth

We humans live by stories, says David Korten, and the stories that now govern our society set us on a path to certain self-destruction. In this profound new book, Korten shares the results of his search for a story that reflects the fullness of human knowledge and understanding and provides a guide to action adequate to the needs of our time.Korten calls our current story "Sacred Money and Markets." Money, it tells us, is the measure of all worth and the source of all happiness. Earth is simply a source of raw materials. Inequality and environmental destruction are unfortunate but unavoidable. Although many recognize that this story promotes bad ethics, bad science, and bad economics, it will remain our guiding story until replaced by one that aligns with our deepest understanding of the universe and our relationship to it. Offering a hopeful vision, Korten lays out the transformative impact adopting this story will have on every aspect of human life and society.

Gildan Media

* Named as one of Future Survey's Super 70 books * Written by a well-known globalization realist with extensive international experience in business * Uses biological and evolutionary principles to illustrate the differences between capitalism and economic systems Korten examines the fissure between the promises of new global capitalism and the reality of financial insecurity, inequality, social breakdown, spiritual emptiness, and environmental destruction. By drawing on insights from biology and evolutionary principles, Korten renders economic terms and ideas more understandable through the use of simple metaphors regarding living systems. The book prescribes economic solutions to capitalism’s maladies, and provides readers with viable ways to work toward a healthy, sustainable economy.

Biography & History

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

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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Bureaucracy and the Poor: Closing the Gap

People-Centered Development: Contributions Toward Theory and Planning Frameworks

People-Centered Development: Contributions Toward Theory and Planning Frameworks (KUMARIAN PRESS LIBRARY OF MANAGEMENT FOR DEVELOPMENT)

Getting to the 21st Century: Voluntary Action and the Global Agenda

Getting to the 21st century: Voluntary action and the global agenda (Kumarian Press library of management for development)

The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism

Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth

Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth

The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism

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