David Korten's Blog
David 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Making Change Happen: A Three-Fold Strategy
To turn the human course, change the framing story, create a new reality, and change the rules.
Every Great Social Movement
When ordinary people reject the cultural stories that limit their possibilities and bind them to servitude, the course of history turns.
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
As the story fabricated to serve Empire unravels, an authentic story born of the experience and aspirations of ordinary people is emerging to displace it.
A Crumbling Cultural Story
Wall Street grows weaker as the myths underlying its power unravel.
When the People Lead, the Leaders Follow
Deep change is possible, but only when a politically aware citizenry demands it.
