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Korten supplies an updated edition of an explanatory and polemical work from1995 that indicts the current global economic order and describes ways to change it. The bulk of the original material remains, though Korten has rewritten the introduction and added a concluding chapter that reviews events since 1995. Korten's early background, education and academic life were conservative. He was a Republican. He taught at Harvard Business School. In the introduction, he outlines his journey to a progressive political and economic stance. The global economy is here called a "suicide economy," heading towards global disaster. Korten advocates for its replacement with a "living Earth community," in which life and the Earth are sacred, and not money and capitalism. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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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.
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