Originally written as a report to the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, 1997, Globalizing Civil Society was subsequently published by Seven Stories Press in their pamphlet series. It takes the world’s governments to task for failing to address growing hunger, […]
Joanna Macy, author, Coming Back to Life and World as Lover, World as Self
“The Post-Corporate World is a watershed book. Marrying ground-breaking analysis with heartening prescription it is “must” reading for all who dare to hope for a livable future. Here David […]
An earthshaking book–a product of brilliant thinking from one of history’s most groundbreaking intellectuals and activists.
—Lynne Twist, Co-chair, State of the World Forum
This is beyond “big think.” In fact The Post-Corporate World is positively cosmic…Korten’s book is valuable because it […]
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In the quest for economic growth, free market ideology has been embraced around the world with a near religious fervor. The beliefs espoused by free market ideologues are familiar […]
Acknowledgments
Prologue: A Question of Values
1. Looking Upstream
Here in brief is the somewhat unusual story of how this book came to be.
In the fall of 2008, Rabbi Michael Lerner invited me to write an article for Tikkun magazine reviewing big-think books by two influential economists. With Michael’s guidance, the article evolved as the financial meltdown played out, and it […]
Meaning stories deal with our beliefs about the nature of reality, our human nature, our relationship to creation, and the purpose of our existence. They are embedded in the creation stories that are the foundation of most human belief systems.
The Smile
Duane E. Sherwood
Security stories deal with the nature of security and how it is achieved. Empire uses fear of threats from domestic and foreign enemies, real or imagined, to justify the development and use of police and military powers to maintain the institutions of domination that are in reality primarily devoted to securing the power and privilege […]
Prosperity stories deal with the nature of prosperity and how it is achieved. The prosperity story of what global investor George Soros calls “Market Fundamentalism” has become our modern religion. Those who challenge its basic premises are dismissed with much the same fury as dissenter from religious orthodoxy were dismissed as heretics in an earlier […]