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David Korten1 asks us to consider that we are at a moment where we can make some important choices. He asks if future generations will speak in anger and frustration of the time of the Great Unravelling, when profligate consumption exceeded Earth's capacity to sustain and led to an accelerating...
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David Korten imagines a world where a new economy agenda is flourishing, and sets out the principles for how people can achieve it. The article is based on the last three chapters in his new best seller Agenda for a New Economy From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth (2009).
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David C. Korten argues that September 11th shows that the time has come for humanity to leave behind the self-limiting and ultimately self-destructive institutions of Empire and live into being a new Era of Community. In this new era he envisions life as the defining cultural value, cooperation...
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David Korten www.neweconomyforum.org is co-founder and board chair of YES! Magazine, co-chair of the New Economy Working Group, president of the Living Economies Forum, and a founding board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE). His books include Agenda for a New...
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Book reviews: Armstrong Winifred, and Margaret Mansfield, The Paper Trail: Connecting Economic and Natural Systems (reviewed by David C. Korten); Devendra Raj Panday, Nepal's Failed Development: Reflections on the Mission and the Maladies (reviewed by George H. Axinn); Susan George, The Lugano...
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