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 ofWhen Corporations Rule the Worldhelped 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.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.l£Á
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