The post-corporate world
Subtitle: life after capitalism
By: David C. Korten.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler; Kumarian Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA; West Hartford, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Corporations.; Capitalism.; Big business.; Industrial policy.
Description: In this book, David Korten makes a compelling and well-documented case that capitalism's claims to being the engine of wealth creation, the champion of democracy, and the embodiment of the market economy are unfounded. Among Korten's conclusions: Capitalism is a pathology that afflicts democracies and market economies in the absence of vigilant public oversight. The consolidation of economic power under a handful of global mega-corporations is a victory for central planning - not the market economy.

The alternative to the new global capitalism is a planetary system of democratically governed market economies that honor basic market principles of the sort actually advocated by Adam Smith.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.