The post-corporate world
David C. Korten · 1999
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About the book
In this book, David Korten makes a compelling and well-documented case that capitalism's claims to being the engine of wealth creation, the champion of democracy, and the embodiment of the market economy are unfounded. Among Korten's conclusions: Capitalism is a pathology that afflicts democracies and market economies in the absence of vigilant public oversight. The consolidation of economic power under a handful of global mega-corporations is a victory for central planning - not the market economy. The alternative to the new global capitalism is a planetary system of democratically governed market economies that honor basic market principles of the sort actually advocated by Adam Smith.
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Book details
- Year
- 1999
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 318
- ISBN
- 9781576750513
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