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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.
How the Left and Right Can Unite
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
We're trying to fix a failed economic system with the same thinking that caused the failure. We can make different choices and we must prepare ourselves to do so.
The Great Stock Scam
Stock sales are supposed to finance new or expanded productive activity. The numbers tell a different story.
But What About My 401(k)?
Credit cards, mortgages, insurance, retirement: We can meet our basic financial needs (and find real security) without Wall Street.
7 Ways to Stop Wall Street’s Con Game
Whether it’s done by Wall Street or the mafia, theft is theft
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.
Making a Living
We can all live well with what Earth provides—if we seek to make a living rather than a killing.
Design for Life
Applying nature's design principles, we can design economies that self-correct toward Earth balance, shared prosperity, and living democracy.
Learning from the Biosphere
Life provides us with time-tested system design principles. We violate them at our peril.
The World of Our Dreams
I find hope in the fact that for all our wondrous differences, at the core we humans all want most of the same things. Fortunately, what we want aligns with where we need to go.
Our Human Nature
Greed is a sign of moral and psychological immaturity. Psychologically and morally mature adults are caring, cooperative, and honest.
Greed is Not a Virtue
Wall Street's celebration and promotion of moral perversion as a virtue must be exposed and condemned.
The End of Empire
Wall Street’s days are numbered. Ours need not be.
A System Designed to Crash
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.
Phantom Wealth and False Expectations
Playing money games to profit from false expectations is not the same as investing in jobs that produce real value to meet real needs
On the Origin of Corporations
How today's Wall Street profiteers follow in the footsteps of the buccaneers and privateers of yesteryear.
7 Steps for Action Toward a New Economy
Rather than turning again to increased global competition to mend our failing economy, we must instead steer our focus toward cooperation and equality.
War Against the Middle Class
How Wall Street undermined an American ideal and won the class war.
Clueless Economists, Smart Ecologists
To successfully address climate change and extreme poverty, the mindset of the economist must give way to the mindset of the ecologist.
A Real-Market Alternative
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.
