Cliquer sur une vignette pour aller sur Google Books.
Chargement... Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealthpar David C. Korten
Floor books (12) Chargement...
Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This Second Edition of David Korten's latest book is one of the best analyses I have read on how Wall Street economics have led to America'a current situation and are incapable of correcting it. No less importantly Dr. Korten paints a picture of what an ecological and humane economy would look like and suggests what life style and political changes we Americans must make to move towards a viable future. The premise of the book was relatively straightforward - the U.S. economy is dominantly under the control of the wall street wealthy, who propel the economy in to debt and material irrelevence through the reliance on "phantom wealth." The author supports this argument well, going in to detail to some detail to describe - amongst other things - how inflation and the creation of money are driven by private banks' accounting practices, how short-term lending turns business investment in to a gambling game, how GDP doesn't reflect "real" wealth such as the destruction of the environment and the failure to provide services for the disenfranchised. My major criticism is that towards the end of the book, it strays in to a broad and over-reaching left agenda, portraying a socially liberal utopia with reduced teen pregnancy amongst other unrelated social benefits. A cynic would perhaps describe him as a Luddite. Until this point, the book could've just been an argument for a manufacturing-based economy like Germany, Australia, or Scandenavia, but it instead seems to draw that the future involves entirely locally owned economies with a philosophy of minimalist living. I quite like this idea and see the value in it, but it was poorly tied to the rest of the book, linked by rhetoric moreso than argument. A seperate book would perhaps have supported this extension better. Still highly reccommended, and in its closing perhaps reccommends a kind of extreme liberalism which serves to sharpen and provide boundaries around one's own critique of the U.S. Economy and Wall Street's influence over it. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Prix et récompenses
"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]. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
Discussion en coursAucunCouvertures populaires
Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)330.973Social sciences Economics Economics Economic geography and history North America United StatesClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
Est-ce vous ?Devenez un(e) auteur LibraryThing. |
Clear vision of an alternate economy and how we can get there with minimal dislocation. ( )