Book Description
Our Choice: Democracy or Corporate RuleA 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.
Table of Contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- A Choice for Life
- Prologue: A Personal Journey
- Introduction: Capitalism and the Suicide Economy
- PART I: COWBOYS IN A SPACESHIP
- PART II: CONTEST FOR SOVEREIGNTY
- PART III: CORPORATE COLONIALISM
- PART IV: A ROGUE FINANCIAL SYSTEM
- PART V: NO PLACE FOR PEOPLE
- PART VI: TO RECLAIM OUR POWER
- Conclusion: A Living Economy for Living Earth
- Epilogue: Our Need for Meaning
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Author