When Corporations Rule the World
David C. Korten
Paperback: 978 1 887208 04 8
Price: $18.95  

Publisher: Kumarian Press
May 2001 , 408 pp., 6" x 9"
Edition: Second Edition
* An international best-seller
* Endorsed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and World Economic Forum Founder Klaus Schwab
* Selected as one of the Top 50 Sustainability Books as voted for by the University of Cambridge's Programme for Sustainability Leadership alumni network

This second edition updates the reader on the deepening human crisis of the global economy. The gap between rich and poor continues to grow, and people continue to exploit the planet. Korten writes of the new global citizens’ movement of activism in response to corporate globalization, and of civil society groups’ efforts to restructure global economic governance. He transitions from a critical analysis of the new world order to an optimistic focus on the role of spirit and culture in a "civil-ized" society.

Table of Contents:
Foreword: Danny Glover; Introduction: Deepening Crisis -- Cause for Hope; Prologue: A Personal Journey; Cowboys in a Spaceship: From Hope to Crisis; End of the Open Frontier; The Growth Illusion; Contest for Sovereignty: Rise of Corporate Power in America; Assault of the Corporate Libertarians; Decline of Democratic Pluralism; Illusions of the Cloud Minders; Corporate Colonialism: Dreaming of Global Empires; Building Elite Consensus; Buying Out Democracy; Marketing the World; Eliminating the Public Interest; A Rogue Financial System: The Money Game; Predatory Finance; Corporate Cannibalism; Managed Competition; No Place for People; Reclaiming Our Power: The Ecological Revolution; Good Living; Agenda for Change; From Corporate Rule to Civil Society: Making Money, Growing Poorer; The Living Democracy Movement; A Civil Society; Epilogue: A Story for Our Time


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"This well-documented, apocalyptic tome describes the global spread of corporate power as a malignant cancer exercising a market tyranny that is gradually destroying lives, democratic institutions and the ecosystem for the benefit of greedy companies and investors."
- Publishers Weekly
"If you can read only one book on how to understand and address the enormous challenges of our time, When Corporations Rule the World is it..."
- Scientific American