The post-corporate world

Description

In this book, David Korten makes a compelling and well-documented case that capitalism's claims to being the engine of wealth creation, the champion of democracy, and the embodiment of the market economy are unfounded. Among Korten's conclusions: Capitalism is a pathology that afflicts democracies and market economies in the absence of vigilant public oversight. The consolidation of economic power under a handful of global mega-corporations is a victory for central planning - not the market economy. The alternative to the new global capitalism is a planetary system of democratically governed market economies that honor basic market principles of the sort actually advocated by Adam Smith.

First Sentence

IN THE EPIC GREEK POEM The Odyssey, Circe warns Odysseus about the dangers that lie ahead on his journey home from Troy: First thou shalt arrive where the enchanter Sirens dwell, they who seduce men.

Excerpt

IN THE EPIC GREEK POEM The Odyssey, Circe warns Odysseus about the dangers that lie ahead on his journey home from Troy: First thou shalt arrive where the enchanter Sirens dwell, they who seduce men.

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Other Editions

• The post-corporate world: life after capitalismBerrett-Koehler1999-01-01
• The post-corporate worldKumarian Press1999
• The post-corporate worldBerrett-Koehler1999-01-01
• The Post-Corporate WorldHardcoverBerrett-Koehler Publishers1999-04-01
• The post-corporate worldKumarian Press2000-01-01