Award Name Independent Publisher Book Awards Award category Politics/Current Events Nearly two years after the economic meltdown, joblessness and foreclosures are still endemic, Wall Street executives are once again getting massive bonuses, and our leaders in Washington lack the will to make desperately needed fundamental changes to the economy.
Change will have to come from below.
Agenda for a New Economy is the handbook for that revolution.
In this revised and updated edition David Korten has fleshed out his vision of the alternative to the corporate Wall Street economy: a Main Street economy based on locally owned, community-oriented living enterprises whose success is measured as much by their positive impact on people and the environment as by their positive balance sheet.
We will lose nothing in the process because, as Korten ably demonstrates, the supposed services Wall Street offers are simply a con game.
And Korten now offers more in-depth advice on how to mount a grassroots campaign to bring about an economy based on shared prosperity, ecological stewardship, and citizen democracy.
About the Author David Korten is president and founder of the People-Centered Development Forum, chair of the board of YES! magazine, and a founding board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies.
He is the author of The Great Turning, The Post-Corporate World, and When Corporations Rule the World.
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Berrett-koehler Publishers Agenda for a new economy: from phantom wealth to real wealth, paperback/david c. korten
