David C. Korten

David Korten argues that corporate consolidation of power is but one manifestation of "Empire", the organization of society by hierarchies of dominance, which threatens the future of humanity....

Korten shares insights from his personal experience as a participant in the growing movement for a new economy....

To guide our path to a viable human future, Korten offers a "Sacred Life and Living Earth" story grounded in a cosmology that affirms we are living beings born of a living Earth....

When Corporations Rule the World explains how economic globalization has concentrated the power to govern in global corporations and financial markets....

Today's economic crisis is the worst since the Great Depression. However, the steps being taken to address it do nothing to deal with the reality of a failed economic system....