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Column #79: Sara Larrain R., "Winning
in the Global Economy: Chile’s Dark Victory." Chile
is the current poster child of export-led growth. Larrain argues that its
economic success is based on unsustainable exploitation of its human and natural
resources.
Column #80: Bishan Singh, "Economics
without Ethics: The […]
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Column #82: David C. Korten, “A Political and Spiritual Awakening.” Human survival depends on taking the an epic step toward accepting responsibility for humanity’s role in shaping the evolution of life on planet earth.
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Article #20: David C. Korten “Rights of Money Versus Rights of Living Persons.” We must rethink our concept […]
How the Green Party Can Become
America’s Most Significant Political Force
2010 Pacific Northwest Regional Green Gathering
David Korten
November 13, 2010
I was delighted to be invited to address this gathering of Pacific Northwest Regional Green Party leaders. I had not realized at the time that would be an exclusive gathering of the […]
During the heat of candidate Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, I drafted the economic address to the nation that I hoped he might give early in his administration as part […]
Barack Obama was swept into the U.S. presidency on a promise of change. On the economic front, he pushed through a stimulus package, but his efforts to rein in Wall Street have been tepid and sporadic at best. This is due only in part to Wall Street’s political power. More relevant to the theme of […]
The life-serving market system we want and the life-destructive capitalist system we have feature very different structures and operate by very different rules. A healthy market system is designed to facilitate the beneficial self-organizing exchange of goods and services in response to people’s self-defined needs. The capitalist system, by contrast, is designed to concentrate economic […]
We humans are awakening to the reality that we are living beings and that healthy living systems self-organize to function as sharing, cooperative, dynamically balanced communities. Nature’s closest equivalent to the corporate-driven global economy is the suicidal, malignant cancer that seeks its own unlimited growth without regard for the harm this does to the body that […]
Efforts to fix Wall Street miss an important point. It can’t be fixed. It is corrupt beyond repair, and we cannot afford it. Moreover, because the essential functions it does perform are served better in less costly ways, we do not need it.
Wall Street’s only business purpose is to enrich its own major players, a […]
If we look upstream for the ultimate cause of the economic crisis that is tearing so many lives apart, we find an illusion: the belief that money—a mere number created with a simple accounting entry that has no reality outside the human mind—is wealth. Because money represents a claim on so many things essential to […]
I stand before you today as a patriotic American, a former Captain in the United States Air Force, and a veteran of the Vietnam War.