When Corporations Rule the World [Paperback]

Our Choice: Democracy or Corporate Rule

A 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 ofWhen Corporations Rule the Worldhelped 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.A Choice for Life
Prologue: A Personal Journey
Introduction: Capitalism and the Suicide Economy
PART I: COWBOYS IN A SPACESHIP
1.From Hope to Crisis
2.End of the Open Frontier
3.The Growth Illusion
PART II: CONTEST FOR SOVEREIGNTY
4.Rise of Corporate Power in America
5.Assault of the Corporate Libertarians
6.The Decline of Democratic Pluralism
7.Illusions of the Cloud Minders
PART III: CORPORATE COLONIALISM
8.Dreaming of Global Empires
9.Building Elite Consensus
10.Buying Out Democracy
11.Marketing the World
12.Adjusting the Poor
13.Guaranteeing Corporate Rights
PART IV: A ROGUE FINANCIAL SYSTEM
14.The Money Game
15.Predatory Finance
16.Corporate Cannibalism
17.Managed Competition
PART V: NO PLACE FOR PEOPLE
18.Race to the Bottom
19.lS.