Stories by David Korten
David Korten is a former economist with USAID, author of "When Corporations Rule the World," and an associate of the International Forum on Globalization.
Posted on Apr 26, 2012
David Korten: Indigenous wisdom reveals a path to the future that does not include a buy-out of the earth’s natural systems.
Posted on Apr 2, 2012, Source: YES! Magazine
How we can call out the myths, restructure the banking system, shut down the con game, and take back America.
Posted on Nov 30, 2011, Source: YES! Magazine
It turns out that most job creation in the United States is the result of Main Street entrepreneurs, not Wall Street financial wizards.
Posted on Jul 20, 2011, Source: YES! Magazine
A new report details the ways America can be free of the power wielded by the big banks that brought on the economic crisis.
Posted on May 24, 2011, Source: YES! Magazine
As we restructure our physical and economic relationships for true economic efficiency and reduce the human burden on the biosphere, we will see our interdependence more clearly.
Posted on Mar 29, 2011, Source: YES! Magazine
As powerful as Wall Street appears to be, its abuse of power has so eroded the economic, social, and environmental foundations of its own existence that its fate is sealed.
Posted on Jan 23, 2011, Source: YES! Magazine
One type of microcredit program is designed to serve the poor; another to maximize financial returns to program managers and Wall Street investors.
Posted on Nov 19, 2010, Source: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
An excerpt from David Korten's Agenda for a New Economy, on what it's going to take to repair our society.
Posted on Nov 4, 2010, Source: YES! Magazine
This election showed us that neither of our two major parties has a credible vision for our economic future.
Posted on May 20, 2010, Source: YES! Magazine
Where does the concept of "climate debt" fit into a New Economy framework?
Posted on May 6, 2010, Source: YES! Magazine
Congress shouldn't tweak the greed-driven Wall Street machine, it should create a new financial system that answers to communities.
Posted on Feb 17, 2009, Source: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Our economic system has failed in every dimension: financial, environmental, and social. We must go in a new direction.
Posted on Jan 20, 2009, Source: YES! Magazine
Barack Obama was elected on a promise of change. Here's a speech offering hope for our economic, social, and environmental future.
Posted on Jun 27, 2008, Source: YES! Magazine
In a time when the old order is shattering a global movement is emerging to challenge the use of war as a tool of statecraft.
Posted on Jun 27, 2008, Source: YES! Magazine
In a time when the old order is shattering, a global movement is emerging to challenge the use of war as a tool of statecraft.
Posted on Jun 16, 2008, Source: YES! Magazine
The day of reckoning for our reckless human ways that many of us have for decades warned would be coming is here.
Posted on Nov 26, 2007, Source: YES! Magazine
It's time we step back and consider the concept of the private-benefit corporation.
Posted on Sep 19, 2007, Source: YES! Magazine
If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth. This requires building economies with heart.
Posted on Aug 7, 2006, Source: YES! Magazine
It's never too late to change our future -- we're the ones we've been waiting for.
