David C. Korten Audio Books

A handful of corporations and financial institutions command an ever-greater concentration of economic and political power in an assault against markets, democracy, and life. It's a "suicide economy," David Korten says, and it destroys the very foundations of its own existence.

David Korten argues that corporate consolidation of power is but one manifestation of Empire, the organization of society by hierarchies of dominance, which threatens the future of humanity....

Today's economic crisis is the worst since the Great Depression. However, the steps being taken to address it do nothing to deal with the reality of a failed economic system....

We humans live by stories, says David Korten, and the stories that now govern our society set us on a path to certain self-destruction.

When Corporations Rule the World explains how economic globalization has concentrated the power to govern in global corporations and financial markets....