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       How can we build an economy that works for all of us? David Korten lays out his vision in  his latest book, Agenda for a New Economy. This special blog series is comprised of condensed and updated excerpts.  
       
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    <description>Deep change begins with a vision of possibility. </description>        
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    <description>How I came to challenge the economic theories and institutions I once served.</description>        
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    <title>The Illusion of Money</title>        
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    <description>Liberation from subservience to Wall Street begins with a recognition that money is just a number of no intrinsic value.  </description>        
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    <title>System Failure? Look Upstream</title>        
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    <description>Why is our economic system consigning billions of people to degrading poverty, destroying Earth's ecosystem, and tearing up the social fabric of civilized community?
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    <title>Money From Nothing?</title>        
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    <description>Through their accounting slight of hand, Wall Street illusionists convince even themselves that they are enriching society rather than preying on it.  </description>        
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    <title>Good Debt, Bad Debt</title>        
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    <description>Is using debt to create money a bad idea? It depends on where the money goes.  </description>        
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    <title>A Real-Market Alternative</title>        
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    <description>Our current economic choice is not between capitalism and communism. It is between locally accountable Main Street markets and Wall Street central planning by predatory global financiers.</description>        
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    <title>Clueless Economists, Smart Ecologists</title>        
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    <description>To successfully address climate change and extreme poverty, the mindset of the economist must give way to the mindset of the ecologist. </description>        
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    <title>War Against the Middle Class</title>        
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    <description>How Wall Street undermined an American ideal and won the class war.</description>        
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    <title>On the Origin of Corporations</title>        
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    <description>How today's Wall Street profiteers follow in the footsteps of the buccaneers and privateers of yesteryear. </description>        
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    <title>Phantom Wealth and False Expectations</title>        
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    <description>Playing money games to profit from false expectations is not the same as investing in jobs that produce real value to meet real needs</description>        
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    <title>A System Designed to Crash</title>        
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    <description>To create a stable functioning financial system, we must first understand why the current financial system holds policy makers hostage to Wall Street interests. It is more than just political corruption. </description>        
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    <title>The End of Empire</title>        
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    <description>Wall Street’s days are numbered. Ours need not be.</description>        
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    <title>Greed is Not a Virtue</title>        
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    <description>Wall Street's celebration and promotion of moral perversion as a virtue must be exposed and condemned.  </description>        
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    <title>Our Human Nature</title>        
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    <description>Greed is a sign of moral and psychological immaturity. Psychologically and morally mature adults are caring, cooperative, and honest.  </description>        
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