When Corporations Rule the World

Korten supplies an updated edition of an explanatory and polemical work from1995 that indicts the current global economic order and describes ways to change it. The bulk of the original material remains, though Korten has rewritten the introduction and added a concluding chapter that reviews events since 1995. Korten’s early background, education and academic life were conservative. He was a Republican. He taught at Harvard Business School. In the introduction, he outlines his journey to a progressive political and economic stance. The global economy is here called a "suicide economy," heading towards global disaster. Korten advocates for its replacement with a "living Earth community," in which life and the Earth are sacred, and not money and capitalism. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)