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When Corporations Rule The World (UK PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS Management / Business)

When Corporations Rule The World (UK PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS Management / Business)

by David C . Korten (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

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Synopsis

When Corporations Rule the World explains how economic globalization has concentrated the power to govern in global corporations and financial markets and detached them from accountability to the human interest. It documents the devastating human and environmental consequences of the successful efforts of these corporations to reconstruct values and institutions everywhere on the planet to serve their own narrow ends. It also reveals why and how millions of people are acting to reclaim their political and economic power from these elitist forces and presents a policy agenda for restoring democracy and rooting economic power in people and communities. This second edition is expanded to include new information, including a new preface, a new introduction, a new chapter on the global democracy movement, and a new epilogue.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 128
 Edition: 2
 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education / Europe, Middle East & Africa
Published: 31 May 2001
ISBN 10: 1887208046
ISBN 13: 9781887208048

Media 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
Should be high on the list of 'must-read' books for even the busiest corporate executive.
The Financial Times (London)
Building on the electrifying, bestselling first edition of When Corporations Rule the World, this new edition expands and updates Korten's laser-like analysis of how global corporations dominate people and their governments, and the miserable conditions that result when the few rule the many. Korten then shows practical pathways to a realizable future of more just, prosperous, and sustainable societies. This book will agitate your mind, elevate your soul, and engage your civic spirit.
Ralph Nader
If you can read only one book on how to address the enormous challenges of our time, this is it.... Korten weaves together a devastating critique of the tyranny of the global economy with an arsenal of well-argued alternatives to offer an empowering agenda for change.
John Cavanagh, Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies and coauthor of Global Dreams
If you work in a business, or know someone who does, this book is required reading. Korten defines the business agenda for the next 20 years, and he does it thoughtfully and from the heart.
Peter Block, author of Stewardship and The Empowered Manager
Required reading for women who want to peek behind the curtain of the global economy and figure out how to save ourselves and respond to the global SOS.
Bella Abzug, Co-Chair, Women's Environment & Development Organization
When Corporations Rule the World is an absolutely indispensable guide to the new world economy. It is a learned, courageous, and ultimately hopeful book. It provides a blueprint for the process of economic reformation which is essential for the recovery of sovereignty, community, and a right relation to the natural world.
Resurgence
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
Korten's mixture of acute observation, common-sense practicality and vigorous idealism may open more than a few minds.
The New Internationalist
A clear-eyed, rational critique... Korten's book deserves a large readership.
Academy of Management Review

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

Author Bio
David C. Korten is board chair of the Positive Futures Network, publishers of YES! A Journal of Positive Futures, and founder and president of The People-Centered Development Forum. He is a former faculty member of the Harvard Business School and the author of nine previous books including the bestselling When Corporations Rule the World and The Post-Corporate World.