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...

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).