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ShareDavid Korten is co-founder and board chair of YES! Magazine and author of Agenda for a New Economy, The Great Turning, and When Corporations Rule the World.
Beyond the Bubble Economy
We’ve finally learned that a growing financial sector isn’t the same thing as actual economic improvement. So how can we stimulate the real economy?
End the Fed? David Korten Responds
There’s lots of anger against the Federal Reserve from the left and the right. David Korten argues that what it needs is some major restructuring.
David Korten: Why I'm in Solidarity with #OccupyWallStreet
By the calendar it’s autumn, but for many it is the beginning of the American Spring.
The Path to Real Prosperity
David Korten: A new jobs plan is thinking too small. What we need is a new economy.
A Presidential Declaration of Independence from Wall Street—Part 2
What might a truly new economic vision for America look like? David Korten imagines a presidential address he’d like to hear.
A Presidential Declaration of Independence from Wall Street
What might a truly new economic vision for America look like? David Korten imagines a presidential address he'd like to hear.
How You Can Get Started Building a New Economy
Change the story; create a new reality; change the rules. David Korten’s threefold strategy for change.
Are You a Culture Worker?
David Korten: From religion to the arts, we have more influence on culture than we think. How to use that power for good.
How Change Happens: A Three-Fold Strategy
David Korten: To build a new economy, we must work on three fronts.
Every Great Social Movement
David Korten: The biggest shifts of our time have been sparked by ordinary people rejecting the cultural stories that dominated them.
How to Liberate America
How is it that our nation is awash in money, but too broke to provide jobs and services? David Korten introduces a landmark new report, “How to Liberate America from Wall Street Rule.”
The Story of a New Economy
David Korten: We’re in the midst of a contest of competing stories—one fabricated to serve the interests of Empire; the other an authentic story born of the experience and aspirations of ordinary people.
A Crumbling Cultural Story
David Korten on the unraveling of the myth that underpins our economic behavior.
The Next American Revolution?
David Korten: What America's current movement against corporate power can learn from that time we overthrew a king.
How the Left and Right Can Unite
David Korten: If we'd stop tearing each other apart, we might see an opportunity to win back our democracy from the rich and powerful.
Mapping Uncharted Economic Waters
David Korten: We're trying to fix the economic crisis with the same thinking that created it. Next time, we can be prepared with a map to something better.
The Great Stock Scam
David Korten: Stock sales are supposed to help finance dividends or productivity improvements. But the numbers tell a different story.
But What About My 401(k)?
Credit cards, mortgages, insurance, retirement: How to fulfill our basic financial needs (and find real security) without Wall Street.
7 Ways to Stop Wall Street’s Con Game
David Korten’s suggestions for stopping phantom wealth speculation.
Living Buildings, Living Economies, and a Living Future
David Korten: Two ideas that bring me renewed hope that we can end our isolation from nature and from each other.
