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In fact the postcorporate world is positively cosmickortens book is valuable because it invites us to do something. The postcorporate world provides a vision of whats needed and whats possible, as well as a detailed agenda for change. The postcorporate world life after capitalism david korten author publication date. The post corporate world presents readers with a profound challenge and an empowering sense of hope. In this important book, david korten makes a compelling and welldocumented case that capitalism is actually delivering a fatal blow not only to life, but also to democracy and the market. The rights of living persons excerpted from the book the post corporate world life after capitalism by david korten kumarian press, 1999, paper p183. The living world is a creation of the life spirit that quickens all beings and has longestablished imperatives for healthy func. Which sets up an interesting juxtaposition because it points to the possibility that there really is an alternative. If capitalism were to be abandoned across the world, starvation and utter poverty would spread to all parts of the world.
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