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David Korten

YES! Magazine's co-founder and board chair writes about the Great Turning toward a new economy and a sustainable society.

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It’s a “Story Problem”: What’s Behind Our Messed-Up Economy

The peoples of earlier times prospered from the guidance of simple stories that offered answers to their deepest questions. We need those now more than ever.

David Korten Jul 16, 2013

Growth or Equality: Two Competing Visions for America’s Future

David Korten on how closing the wealth gap can open the way to a fairer, more prosperous economy.

David Korten Sep 11, 2012

America’s Deficit Attention Disorder

Money is the least of our problems. It’s time to pay attention to the real deficits that are killing us.

David Korten Aug 09, 2012

Rio+20: A Defining Choice

How can we create an economy that serves the health and well-being of both people and the planet? Follow the Earth’s lead.

David Korten Jun 15, 2012

A Plea for Rio+20: Don’t Commodify Nature

David Korten: Indigenous wisdom reveals a path to the future that does not include a buy-out of the earth’s natural systems.

David Korten Apr 23, 2012

When Bankers Rule the World

How we can call out the myths, restructure the banking system, shut down the con game, and take back America.

David Korten Mar 29, 2012

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?

David Korten Feb 02, 2012

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 Nov 17, 2011

Protesters fill the Brooklyn Bridge on October 1, the day more than 700 were arrested.

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.

David Korten Oct 04, 2011

The Path to Real Prosperity

Step by step we can reclaim for Main Street the economic and political power that Wall Street now holds and create a world that truly works for all.

David Korten Sep 06, 2011

A Presidential Declaration of Independence from Wall Street—Part 2

What might a truly new economic vision for America look like? This is my answer framed as the presidential address we must prepare the way for a future president to deliver.

David Korten Aug 23, 2011

A Presidential Declaration of Independence from Wall Street -Part 1

What might a truly new economic vision for America look like? This is my answer framed as the presidential address we must prepare the way for a future president to deliver.

David Korten Aug 19, 2011

How You Can Get Started Building a New Economy

No one of us can do it alone. If, however, we each contribute according to our distinctive gifts and circumstances, together we can turn the human course.

David Korten Aug 22, 2011

Are You a Culture Worker?

From religion to the arts, we have more influence on culture than we think. We can use that power to expand or to limit our possibilities as a species.

David Korten Aug 05, 2011

Making Change Happen: A Three-Fold Strategy

To turn the human course, change the framing story, create a new reality, and change the rules.

David Korten Jul 22, 2011