David Korten

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David Korten

David C. Korten (* 1937 in Longview , Washington ) is an American author and globalization critic .

Korten graduated from Longview's RA Long high school in 1955. Korten received the MBA and Ph.D. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business . In the Vietnam War he served as a captain in the US Air Force . After the war he was a professor at Harvard University . He later worked for US development aid in Asia for several years. In 1990 he founded the People-Centered Development Forum together with others and became its president.

Korten uses two models to describe the relationship between humans and the earth, the “cowboy” and the “ spaceship ” model. According to the “cowboy” model, most people regard the earth as an inexhaustible reservoir of raw materials to supply the human species and that these resources are constantly being renewed. In reality, according to Korten, the earth is more like a "spaceship" in which the resources are much more limited and in which humans must continuously strive to actively renew and maintain them.

Works

  • Agenda for a new Economy - From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth . Berrett-Koehler, San Francisco, Calif. 2009, ISBN 978-1-60509-289-8
  • The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community . Mcgraw-Hill 2006, ISBN 978-1887208079
  • The post-corporate world. Life after capitalism . Berrett-Koehler, San Francisco, Calif. 1999, ISBN 1-57675-051-5
  • When corporations rule the world . (1st edition 1995), 2nd edition Berrett-Koehler, San Francisco, California 2nd edition 2001, ISBN 1-887208-04-6
  • Getting to the 21st century. Voluntary action and the global agenda . Kumarian Press, West Hartford, Conn., 1990, ISBN 0-931816-84-X
  • The failure of Bretton Woods . In: Jerry Mander et al. (Ed.): Black Book Globalization . Riemann, Munich 2002, pp. 58-72, ISBN 3-570-50025-X

Web links

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  1. ↑ www.breakingthesilence.us THE BREAKING THE SILENCE CONFERENCE  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 20, 2009@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.breakingthesilence.us  
  2. ↑ People-Centered Development Forum ( Memento from January 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Korten, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Korten, David C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and globalization critic
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Longview , Washington