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Agenda for a new economy : from phantom wealth to real wealth / David C. Korten.

By: Korten, David CContributor(s): New Economy Working GroupMaterial type: TextTextSeries: BK currents book: Publisher: San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2010Edition: 2nd ed., updated & expandedDescription: xiii, 311 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780070147034 Subject(s): Wealth -- United States | United States -- Economic policy -- 2001-2009DDC classification: 330.973 LOC classification: HC106.83 | .K67 2009.
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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]
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"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]

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