Agenda for a new economy : from phantom wealth to real wealth /
Korten, David C.
Agenda for a new economy : from phantom wealth to real wealth / David C. Korten. - 2nd ed., updated & expanded. - San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2010. - xiii, 311 p. ; 22 cm. - A BK currents book . - BK currents book. .
"A publication of the New Economy Working Group." "A declaration of independence from Wall Street"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-295) and index.
Looking upstream -- Modern alchemists and the sport of moneymaking -- A real-market alternative -- More than tinkering at the margins -- What Wall Street really wants -- Buccaneers and privateers -- The high cost of phantom wealth -- The end of empire -- Greed is not a virtue; sharing is not a sin -- What people really want -- At home on a living earth -- New vision, new priorities -- Seven points of intervention -- What about my-- ? -- A presidential Declaration of Independence from wall -- When the people lead, the leaders will follow -- A visionary president meets realpolitik -- Change the story, change the future -- Learning to live, living to learn.
"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. Korten now offers in-depth advice on how to mount a grassroots campaign to bring about an economy based on shared prosperity, ecological stewardship, and citizen democracy."--[book cover]
9781605093758 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1605093750 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Wealth--United States.
Riqueza--Historia
United States--Economic policy--2001-2009.
Estados Unidos --Política económica
HC 106.83 / K85a 2010
330.973
Agenda for a new economy : from phantom wealth to real wealth / David C. Korten. - 2nd ed., updated & expanded. - San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2010. - xiii, 311 p. ; 22 cm. - A BK currents book . - BK currents book. .
"A publication of the New Economy Working Group." "A declaration of independence from Wall Street"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-295) and index.
Looking upstream -- Modern alchemists and the sport of moneymaking -- A real-market alternative -- More than tinkering at the margins -- What Wall Street really wants -- Buccaneers and privateers -- The high cost of phantom wealth -- The end of empire -- Greed is not a virtue; sharing is not a sin -- What people really want -- At home on a living earth -- New vision, new priorities -- Seven points of intervention -- What about my-- ? -- A presidential Declaration of Independence from wall -- When the people lead, the leaders will follow -- A visionary president meets realpolitik -- Change the story, change the future -- Learning to live, living to learn.
"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. Korten now offers in-depth advice on how to mount a grassroots campaign to bring about an economy based on shared prosperity, ecological stewardship, and citizen democracy."--[book cover]
9781605093758 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1605093750 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Wealth--United States.
Riqueza--Historia
United States--Economic policy--2001-2009.
Estados Unidos --Política económica
HC 106.83 / K85a 2010
330.973