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"When Corporations Rule the World" explains how economic globalization has concentrated the power to govern in global corporations and financial markets and detached them from accountability to the human interest. It documents the devastating human and environmental consequences of the successful efforts of these corporations to reconstruct values and institutions everywhere on the planet to serve their own narrow ends. It also reveals why and how millions of people are acting to reclaim their political and economic power from these elitist forces and presents a policy agenda for restoring democracy and rooting economic power in people and communities. This second edition is expanded to include new information, including a new preface, a new introduction, a new chapter on the global democracy movement, and a new epilogue.
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David C. Korten is board chair of the Positive Futures Network, publishers of YES! A Journal of Positive Futures, and founder and president of The People-Centered Development Forum. He is a former faculty member of the Harvard Business School and the author of nine previous books including the bestselling When Corporations Rule the World and The Post-Corporate World.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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The reference to the individual who was called a "complete and utter idiot" is way off base. While the reader that gave the book "one star" is perfectly entitled to their opinion, I would venture to guess that s/he does work where s/he is rewarded by the faceless corporate world s/he defends so adamantly. Unfortunately, the book's message that s/he too is simply, metaphorically speaking, a red blood cell in the beast's machine, easily expendible and destroyed at a millisecond's hesitation, did not ring home.
Korten's analysis of the economic system is accurate and informing, myself being a student of economics and currently employed in a major financial institution. Having been schooled in economic thought, and seeing the greed and unaccounability that he describes coherently and adequately, I must espouse to be an advocate of reform. Is the reviewer who attacked the book a "complete and utter idiot?" Again, no. Perhaps a better descri! ption would be "Selfish, greedy, undereducated, bought, packaged, and distributed unit, compliments of the power elite and socially unaccountable Multinational Corporations?" As to that description of the reviewer, I would venture so far as to say, "Most Definitely."
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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There are many writers who attempt to expose the criminality of the present world order. However, Korton's book not only presents the vital information, it also provides plans of action. It is too easy to look at the situation and dispair. The apathy and denial which infects most citizens of the U.S. is primarily the result of an unremitting propaganda campaign... a campaign of disinformation. "When Corporations Rule the World" is a book that presents the truths that have been hidden from us. If anyone want to know where to start... when it comes to "saving the world", this is a place to start. I hope that this book can begin a dialogue which I can be a part of. Send your thoughts via E-mail.
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This is an excellent book that crosses political lines in contemporary America. Both the left-wing idealist and the right-wing GENUINE free market advocate will sober quickly upon reading. Those who espose to be advocates of the free market as Adam Smith championed it will do well to read it, as it may change their minds on where we stand currently in relation to free markets, efficient resource allocation, and just how far we are from the pure competitive model.
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A choice for life
In this extremely hard-hitting book, David C. Korten destroys the super-wealthy façade of the very few by exposing behind it the billions of people facing a continuous uphill... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Luc REYNAERT
Great Deal
It took 4 weeks to get delivery from the states. On the day I was about to notify Amazon that I did not receive the book, it arrived. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Steve James
WHEN KORTON RULES THE WORLD
BUY THIS BOOK,YOU WILL LEARN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MONEY MAKING AND WEALTH CREATION,YOU LEARN HOW MULTINATIONALS RULE THE WORLD,BY SUBJUGATING LABOR,HOW CAPITAL RULES THE WORLD IN... Read more
Published on 22 Sep 2009 by Mr. S. Yousaf
Could do better
Mr Korten displays an breathtaking lack of historical and economic knowledge. This appalling book is a badly written collection of conspiracy, misunderstanding and Politically... Read more
Published on 28 Jun 2000
worth reading
Some extremely interesting chapters in this book, and a good critique on the disadvantages of Transnational companies, global trade etc. Read more
Published on 6 Dec 1999
Good book, although a bit of a long tredge!
This book may expose a lot of what global corporations do wrong, but beware, take the book with a pinch of salt! Read more
Published on 9 Nov 1999
More of a threat....
This book is more of a threat to the established order than thousands of armed men could ever be. You'll learn more from this book than you would after getting a degree in... Read more
Published on 22 April 1999
THE BOOK on Corporate Power and Democracy
This is THE book to read if you want to gain an understanding of the big picture in America today.
Published on 24 Dec 1998
This book will surpass the "Keynesian Revolution"...
If you want to understand what's wrong with the current global economic picture, then READ THIS BOOK!! Read more
Published on 7 July 1998
A primer for activists, academics and concern citizens
David Korten tell-it-as-it-is approach is paradoxically fresh in these times of a global consensus on crushing the poor, repressing the disenfranchised and silencing the... Read more
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