TY  - BOOK
AU  - Korten,David C.
TI  - When corporations rule the world
SN  - 9781887208048 (pbk.) :
AV  - HD2326 .K647 2001
PY  - 2001///
CY  - San Francisco, Calif., Bloomfield, Conn.
PB  - Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Kumarian Press
KW  - Corporations
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Industries
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Industrialization
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Big business
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
KW  - Business and politics
KW  - International business enterprises
KW  - International economic relations
KW  - Sustainable development
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-365) and index; Introduction : deepening crisis, cause for hope -- Prologue : a personal journey -- pt. I. Cowboys in a spaceship. From hope to crisis -- End of the open frontier -- The growth illusion -- pt. II. Contest for sovereignty. Rise of corporate power in America -- Assault of the corporate libertarians -- Decline of democratic pluralism -- Illusions of the cloud minders -- pt. III. Corporate colonialism. Dreaming of global empires -- Building elite consensus -- Buying out democracy -- Marketing the world -- Eliminating the public interest -- pt. IV. A rogue financial system. The money game -- Predatory finance -- Corporate cannibalism -- Managed competition -- No place for people -- pt. V. Reclaiming our power. The ecological revolution -- The good living -- Agenda for change -- pt. VI. From corporate rule to civil society. Making money, growing poorer -- The living democracy movement -- A civil society -- Epilogue : a story for our time
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