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Author Korten, David C.

Title When corporations rule the world / David C. Korten
Edition Second edition
Published San Francisco, Calif. : Berrett-Koehler Publishers ; Bloomfield, Conn. : Kumarian Press, 2001

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Description xix, 384 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Foreword / Danny Glover -- Introduction: Deepening Crisis - Cause for Hope -- Prologue: A Personal Journey -- I. Cowboys in a Spaceship -- 1. From Hope to Crisis -- 2. End of the Open Frontier -- 3. The Growth Illusion -- II. Contest for Sovereignty -- 4. Rise of Corporate Power in America -- 5. Assault of the Corporate Libertarians -- 6. Decline of Democratic Pluralism -- 7. Illusions of the Cloud Minders -- III. Corporate Colonialism -- 8. Dreaming of Global Empires -- 9. Building Elite Consensus -- 10. Buying Out Democracy -- 11. Marketing the World -- 12. Eliminating the Public Interest -- IV. A Rogue Financial System -- 13. The Money Game -- 14. Predatory Finance -- 15. Corporate Cannibalism -- 16. Managed Competition -- 17. No Place for People -- V. Reclaiming Our Power -- 18. The Ecological Revolution -- 19. Good Living -- 20. Agenda for Change -- VI. From Corporate Rule to Civil Society -- 21. Making Money, Growing Poorer -- 22. The Living Democracy Movement
23. A Civil Society -- Epilogue: A Story for Our Time
Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-365) and index
"Foreword by Danny Glover" -- Cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-365) and index
SUBJECT Big business. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99054220
Subject Big business.
Corporations -- Political aspects.
Industries -- Environmental aspects.
Industrialization -- Social aspects.
Power (Social sciences)
Business and politics.
International business enterprises.
International economic relations.
Sustainable development.
LC no. 00054452
ISBN 1887208046 alkaline paper