David Korten - Air date" 02-10-97

DAVID KORTEN is an author and leader in the global resistance against corporate globalization. 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, a board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, and an associate of the International Forum on Globalization.

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[yanikv]

No wonder this host never became too popular. He is beyond irritating...

[yanikv]

@garyowen4ever can people like you die as soon as possible so that the human race can finally advance once again? Mental deficients like yourself are harming the rest of us.

[IWantDemocracyNow]

why do white people, like the host of this show, just talk and talk and talk, when a man with a PHD who wrote a book that is the topic of the show, is trying to explain things? The host has nothing to offer the conversation, so shut up already!!!!

[gunthaarz]

The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and monied incorporations and if this tendency continues it will be the end of freedom and democracy, the few will be ruling and riding over the plundered plowman and the beggar . . . I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a money aristocracy that has set the government at defiance." Thomas Jefferson

[garyowen4ever]

hey korten you old freeze dried 60's hippie, why not stick a wind propeller up your old wrinkled ass.

[janrih]

..the best start for understanding our strange world!!

[seltzerwater464]

I would recommend Korten's book to everyone who wants to know what is wrong with our planet and what possible solutions might look like.

[OhHen]

haha. the book title is facetious of course. the word "when" that is.