By David C. Korten
Our selection: Democracy or company Rule
A handful of agencies and fiscal associations command an ever-greater focus of financial and political strength in an attack opposed to markets, democracy, and existence. It's a “suicide economy,” says David Korten, that destroys the very foundations of its personal existence.
The bestselling 1995 variation of while firms Rule the area helped release a world resistance opposed to company domination. during this twentieth-anniversary version, Korten stocks insights from his own adventure as a player within the starting to be circulate for a brand new economic climate. a brand new advent records the additional focus of wealth and company energy for the reason that 1995 and explores why our associations resolutely face up to even modest reform. a brand new end bankruptcy outlines high-leverage possibilities for leap forward change.
“This is a ‘must-read' book—a searing indictment of an unjust foreign financial order, now not by way of a wild-eyed idealistic left-winger, yet by means of a sober scion of the institution with impeccable credentials. It left me devastated but additionally very hopeful. anything could be performed to create a extra simply monetary order.”
—Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate
“Anyone excited about the systemic obstacle we now face should learn this up-to-date model at the present time. Korten captures the devastating and more and more threatening dynamics of the corporate-dominated worldwide procedure and has provided a colourful, well-written, and demanding approach for relocating us past its harmful financial, social, and ecological logic.”
—Gar Alperovitz, writer of What Then needs to We Do?
“If each company chief who believes implicitly that consumerism is the trail to happiness (and that rampant improvement is the line to worldwide prosperity) have been to learn while companies Rule the realm with an open brain, that global simply may have an opportunity of changing into a greater position for us all.”
—Toronto Globe and Mail
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The youthful heroes of that tribe will no longer be told by the old men “in the good old days of our fathers, a young fellow had to kill his lion before he thought himself man enough to take a wife. " All that will be to the good. Still, the experience of towns like Beyrout and Smyrna suggests that, after all, the known evils of the East may be preferable to the unknown crop that will spring from a confusion of East and West. 37 The Cradle of Mankind: Life In Eastern Kurdistan CHAPTER V THE TEMPLE OF THE DEVIL (SHEIKH ADI) WE have long been partial to pilgrimage.
We, however, drank several cups and experienced no resentment; and our night in the black tents of Kedar was one of the pleasantest on the road. We made a late start the next morning, for it would have been discourteous to hurry; and apparently Arabs, when camping, are not particularly early birds. Our host bade us farewell at his tent door, and accepted with great amiability the trifling present which we offered to him in recognition of his hospitality. Any suggestion of payment would of course have been an insult; but a present is often expected, and always well received.
36 A wandering Kurd related to us how he had stumbled on such a camp after the visitation was over. His suspicion that something was amiss was first aroused by the fact that he encountered no challenge either from man or dog. When he came to the tents he found them full of dead bodies. The only living creatures among them were one old woman and a mare. " More than one carriage load of travellers perished on the road in that catastrophe; but our only discomfort on this occasion was a steady downpour of rain.