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. Eart...

Our Choice: Democracy or Corporate RuleA 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 'Äúsuicide economy,'Äù 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 ed...

The international bestselling author of When Corporations Rule the World shares a vital new vision for changing humanity's self-destructive course.We humans live by stories, says David Korten, and the stories that now govern our society have set us on a self-destructive path. In Change the Story, Change the Future, Korten offers a new story that lets us reimagine society and navigate the critical needs of our time.Korten calls our current st...

The author of When Corporations Rule the World presents a critical handbook for economic revolution in this revised and updated edition.Despite the lessons learned from the economic meltdown of 2008, we are more vulnerable than ever to the same kind of economic havoc. Wall Street executives have returned to their culture of massive bonuses, and our leaders in Washington remain unwilling to make desperately needed fundamental changes to the economy. Change ...

The international bestselling author shares "a compelling, devastating, and ultimately profoundly hopeful" guide to navigating our global future (Van Jones, Executive Director, The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights).David Korten argues that corporate consolidation of power is merely a contemporary manifestation of what he calls Empire: the organization of society by hierarchies of domination. Increasingly destructive on every level, the way of Empire is leading to ...

Mude suas Convicções para Mudar o Futuro atreve-se a expressar uma verdade proibida, porém inegável: vivemos a serviço do capitalismo global, como robôs corporativos programados para atender ao único propósito de ganhar dinheiro.Relacionamo-nos com a Terra como se ela fosse uma rocha morta, esquecendo-nos de que caminhamos rumo ao esgotamento dos seus recursos naturais. Segundo o autor David C. Korten, precisamos mudar a narrativa que determina como compreendemos o mundo e as nossas...

Prompted by the 1998 United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Korten's book indicts the world's governments for failing to address growing hunger, housing shortages, unemployment, poverty, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation. He examines the causes of this global crisis and offers fresh solutions reflecting sustainability, community, and equity--the only principles that can assure a healthy future for the world's people.

Our Choice: Democracy or Corporate RuleA 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 edit...

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.When Corporations Rule the World has become a modern classic. Korten's warnings about the growing global power of multinational corporations seem prophetic today. The book has become a bible of the anticorporate movement.Korten illuminates how the converge...

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.At the end of the 20th century, public attention was focused on a deepening struggle grounded in two sharply divergent world-views and sets of values: that of corporate globalization and that of a newly emerging global movement. David Korten describes this period as a time of cultural awakening and places our present struggle in a larg...

Even though we face a world of tremendous inequality, social breakdown, excessive consumerism and growing spiritual emptiness, there is a way out. David Korten says, "The choice is in front of us. We have the power and the right to make a choice that can open up a future beyond anything we can imagine now. Or we can choose not to make that choice and end up as a failed evolutionary experiment."

Here is a voice of reason that brings not only sanity but consciousness to a real understanding of how our economy works-and why it often doesn't-and how we can apply principles of spirituality and conscious living to the choices we must make for our own financial survival. David Korten understands the economy, and he also knows that money is not all it's cracked up to be-we really can be happy with very little, after all. But he explains how we can use the money we do have as an instrumen...