Full name: The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism

Author: David C. Korten Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Economics Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781887208031 1887208038 1864031603

* Named as one of Future Survey's Super 70 books* Written by a well-known globalization realist with extensive international experience in business* Uses biological and evolutionary principles to illustrate the differences between capitalism and economic systemsKorten examines the fissure between the promises of new global capitalism and the reality of financial insecurity, inequality, social breakdown, spiritual emptiness, and environmental destruction. By drawing on insights from biology and evolutionary principles, Korten renders economic terms and ideas more understandable through the use of simple metaphors regarding living systems. The book prescribes economic solutions to capitalism s maladies, and provides readers with viable ways to work toward a healthy, sustainable economy. Similar books: When Corporations Rule the World by David C. Korten Bad Samaritans by Ha-Joon Chang The Work of Nations by Robert B. Reich Supercapitalism by Robert B. Reich In Defense of Global Capitalism by Johan Norberg Saving Capitalism by Robert B. Reich The Corporation by Joel Bakan 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang The End of the Free Market by Ian Bremmer One World Ready or Not by William Greider Tulipomania by Mike Dash Too High to Fail by Doug Fine One Market Under God by Thomas Frank The Zero Marginal Cost Society by Jeremy Rifkin False Dawn by John Gray Life Inc. by Douglas Rushkoff Plutocrats by Chrystia Freeland Making globalization work by Joseph E. Stiglitz Agenda for a New Economy by David C. Korten Retirement Heist by Ellen E. Schultz