When Corporations Rule the World, David C. Korten
When Corporations Rule the World, David C. Korten
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When Corporations Rule the World

Author: David C. Korten

Narrator: Kevin Pierce

Unabridged: 16 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/29/2015


Synopsis

Our Choice: Democracy or Corporate Rule A handful of corporations and financial institutions command an ever-greater concentration of economic and political power in an assault against markets, democracy, and life. It's a “suicide economy,” says David Korten, that destroys the very foundations of its own existence. The bestselling 1995 edition of When Corporations Rule the World helped launch a global resistance against corporate domination. In this twentieth-anniversary edition, Korten shares insights from his personal experience as a participant in the growing movement for a New Economy. A new introduction documents the further concentration of wealth and corporate power since 1995 and explores why our institutions resolutely resist even modest reform. A new conclusion chapter outlines high-leverage opportunities for breakthrough change.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brian on March 01, 2021

Korten gives a powerful overview of the dangers inherent in the corporatization of global society, and the forces for maintaining balance between public and private interests.......more

Goodreads review by Public on January 05, 2018

This book is a towering achievement. A devastating critique of modern day corporate capitalism - the best I've read since Michael Parenti's "Democracy for the Few." There is a reason that there are a gazillion editions of this book - it is fantastic. Korten's argument has an incredibly wide focus tha......more

One of Cambridge Sustainability's Top 50 Books for Sustainability, as voted for by our alumni network of over 3,000 senior leaders from around the world. To find out more, click here. When Corporations Rule the World suggests that the promises of the global economy are based on a number of myths: tha......more

Goodreads review by Amy on December 29, 2007

what shitty little people we are......more