David Korten
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Dr. David C. Korten is an author and leader within the anti-globalization movement. He is probably best known as the founder of the People-Centered Development Forum and author of the book When Corporations Rule the World. Korten received an M.B.A. and Ph. D. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He served in the Vietnam War as a captain in the United States Air Force. After the war, Dr. Korten spent some time as a visiting professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business and later spent many years working with the U.S. Agency for International Development in Asia. Having become disillusioned with the current US efforts to combat poverty, inequality, and other problems in developing nations, he joined with others in 1990 to found the People-Centered Development Forum where he serves as president. Dr. Korten is also co-founder and board chair of Positive Futures Network, publishers of YES! A Journal of Positive Futures, a quarterly magazine.
Korten also used two models to describe man's relationship with Earth — the "Cowboy" and "Spaceship" models. According to the cowboy model, most people view the Earth having plenty of resources to support the human race and believe that these resources are constantly being renewed. In reality, says Korten, the earth is more like a space capsule in that resources are much more limited and steps must be taken to renew them actively.
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- Getting to the 21st Century: Voluntary Action and the Global Agenda (1990)
- When Corporations Rule the World (1995 / Second Edition 2001)
- The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism
- Globalizing Civil Society: Reclaiming Our Right to Power
- (2006-04-28) The Great Turning. Berrett-Koehler. ISBN 1-887208-07-0.
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