Table of Contents

Part 1 Cowboys in a spaceship: from hope to crisis; end of the open frontier; the growth illusion. Part 2 Contest for sovereignty: rise of corporate power in America; assault of the corporate libertarians; decline of democratic pluralism; illusions of the cloud minders. Part 3 Corporate colonialism: dreaming of global empires; building elite consensus; buying out democracy; marketing the world; adjusting the poor; guaranteeing corporate rights. Part 4 A rogue financial system: the money game; predatory finance; corporate cannibalism; managed competition. Part 5 No place for people: race to the bottom; the end of inefficiency; people with no place. Part 6 Reclaiming our power: the ecological revolution; good living; an awakened civil society; agenda for change.

About the Author

David C. Korten is a cofounder and board chair of YES! Magazine, a cochair of the New Economy Working Group, the founder and president of the Living Economies Forum, a member of the Club of Rome, a founding board member emeritus of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, a former associate of the International Forum on Globalization, and a former Harvard Business School professor.

Reviews

"This is a 'must-read' book--a searing indictment of an unjust international economic order, not by a wild-eyed idealistic left-winger, but by a sober scion of the establishment with impeccable credentials. It left me devastated but also very hopeful. Something can be done to create a more just economic order."
--Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate

"Anyone serious about the systemic crisis we now face ought to read this updated version today. Korten captures the devastating and increasingly threatening dynamics of the corporate-dominated global system and has offered a vibrant, well-written, and important strategy for moving us beyond its destructive economic, social, and ecological logic."
--Gar Alperovitz, author of What Then Must We Do? "If every corporate leader who believes implicitly that consumerism is the path to happiness (and that rampant development is the road to global prosperity) were to read When Corporations Rule the World with an open mind, that world just might have a chance of becoming a better place for us all."
--Toronto Globe and Mail