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Agenda for a New Economy, 2nd Edition

Author David C. Korten
Release Date: 2010/08/01
ISBN: 9781605093765
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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.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. PROLOGUE: A QUESTION OF VALUES
  8. PART I THE CASE FOR A NEW ECONOMY
    1. 1 LOOKING UPSTREAM
    2. 2 MODERN ALCHEMISTS AND THE SPORT OF MONEYMAKING
    3. 3 A REAL-MARKET ALTERNATIVE
    4. 4 MORE THAN TINKERING AT THE MARGINS
  9. PART II THE CASE FOR REPLACING WALL STREET
    1. 5 WHAT WALL STREET REALLY WANTS
    2. 6 BUCCANEERS AND PRIVATEERS
    3. 7 THE HIGH COST OF PHANTOM WEALTH
    4. 8 THE END OF EMPIRE
    5. 9 GREED IS NOT A VIRTUE; SHARING IS NOT A SIN
  10. PART III A LIVING-ECONOMY VISION
    1. 10 WHAT PEOPLE REALLY WANT
    2. 11 AT HOME ON A LIVING EARTH
    3. 12 NEW VISION, NEW PRIORITIES
  11. PART IV A LIVING-ECONOMY AGENDA
    1. 13 SEVEN POINTS OF INTERVENTION
    2. 14 WHAT ABOUT MY. . .?
    3. 15 A PRESIDENTIAL DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE FROM WALL STREET I HOPE I MAY ONE DAY HEAR
  12. PART V NAVIGATING UNCHARTED WATERS
    1. 16 WHEN THE PEOPLE LEAD, THE LEADERS WILL FOLLOW
    2. 17 A VISIONARY PRESIDENT MEETS REALPOLITIK
    3. 18 CHANGE THE STORY, CHANGE THE FUTURE
    4. 19 LEARNING TO LIVE, LIVING TO LEARN
  13. Epilogue: THE VIEW FROM 2084
  14. Notes
  15. Index
  16. About the Author
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