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Media Interviews and Stories
- Hartmann Big Picture interview with David Korten broadcast on RTV on October 31, 2011 on the themes of The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community in two parts. Part I focuses on the personal history that led to writing the book, including a reminiscence on a experience Thom and David shared when they traveled together with a group of "Great Minds" to Daramsala, India to meet with the Dalai Lama.
Part II focuses on rule-based Main Street markets and one-person one-vote democracy as the alternative to rapacious Wall Street capitalism and how we can get there.
- A two part interview with Korten by Cooking Up a Story was also released in October 2011.In Part I he spells out why capitalism is the moral enemy of both democracy and the market economy and why real democracy and real markets are the preferred alternative to capitalism.
Part II explores the implications for sustainable agriculture.
- Rose Aquilar, KALW radio host, asks Gar Alperovitz and David Korten "How can we create a more just economy in 2012?"
- Harrison Schultz interviews Korten for Occupy Wall Street Focus on the Fed Day. "What is the Federal Reserve and What Should We Do with It?"
- Seattle NPR station KUOW 's Steve Scher interviews David Korten and Michelle Long on the New Economy. Aired December 21, 2010 now available as podcast.
- David Brancaccio's Fixing the Future documentary. which originally aired on PBS November 18, 2010, features a running conversation between Brancaccio and David Korten on the New Economy. This is the complete interview.
Watch the full episode. See more NOW on PBS.
- Interview by Michael Thom audio stream New Dimensions
- Interview by Alan Hutner and Levi Ben-Shmuel, Transitions Radio Magazine
- Story Teller for a New Economy, Z-Magazine interview
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- 1990
- 1991
- NGOs AND THE UN CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
- LEADERSHIP FOR TRANSFORMATION: LESSONS FROM THE GULF WAR
- DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION: SOME BASIC ISSUES
- THE SUSTAINABLE PROJECT: A CONTRADICTION
- ELIMINATING UNDERDEVELOPMENT AT ITS SOURCE
- UNCED: UNASKED QUESTIONS
- LATIN AMERICA: FREE TRADE IS NOT THE ANSWER
- EAST AND SOUTH: CONVERGENT INTERESTS
- THE OTHER ECONOMIC SUMMIT: A PEOPLE'S AGENDA
- THE NEW ECONOMICS MOVEMENT
- GREEN GROWTH: A FALSE SOLUTION
- NGOS AND THE ELECTORAL PROCESS: PHILIPPINE PERSPECTIVES
- BEWARE THE SLOSHING OF LOOSE CAPITAL
- ECOLOGICAL STABILITY, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
- COMMUNITY-CENTERED CAPITALISM: AN NGO ALTERNATIVE
- THE HOPE AND CHALLENGE OF PEOPLE'S FORUM 1991
- ECONOMIC ORTHODOXY AND THE POOR: THE CASE OF AUSTRALIAN AID
- ENVIRONMENT AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT: THE ASIAN REALITY
- SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Reflections on Japan's Role
- THE IDEOLOGICAL ROOTS OF CRISIS IN AN ARCHIPELAGIC COUNTRY
- INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE: A PROBLEM POSING AS A SOLUTION
- 1992
- BEYOND THE CHATTER OF MONKEYS: GETTING TO ENVIRONMENTAL BASICS
- EDUCATION FOR GLOBAL CHANGE: A NEW AGENDA FOR DEVELOPMENT EDUCATORS
- THE UNISON SNORING OF SUPINE ECONOMISTS IN DEEP DOGMATIC SLUMBER
- TO IMPROVE HUMAN WELFARE, POISON THE POOR: THE LOGIC OF A FREE MARKET ECONOMIST
- SOUTH AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT AND THE THREAT OF FOREIGN AID
- CIVIL SOCIETY IS THE FIRST SECTOR
- HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIAL JUSTICE, ECOLOGY AND EXPORT ORIENTED INDUSTRIALIZATION
- BUILDING A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE ECONOMY
- DETOXIFYING THE GREEN REVOLUTION
- GLOBAL CITIZEN'S DIPLOMACY: QUEST FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
- REFLECTIONS ON UNCED: A NEW BEGINNING
- HAVING MORE BY CONSUMING LESS
- RESULTS OF RIO: AN EMERGING SOCIAL MOVEMENT
- GREEN DOLLARS MISS THE POINT
- THE EARTH SUMMIT: COMPETING VISIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER
- NEED MONEY FOR YOUR PROJECT? THREE PROVEN RULES
- NGOs AND THE UNCED FOLLOW-UP PROCESS: CONTINUING NEED FOR INDEPENDENT ACTION
- RETHINKING U.S. INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE AS IF PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT MATTER
- UNDP's HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT: OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT DOUBLE SPEAK
- DEVELOPMENT HERESY AND THE ECOLOGICAL REVOLUTION
- BEYOND MARKET VERSUS STATE
- SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: PROSPERITY WITHOUT GROWTH
- NGOs & the World Bank: An Open Letter
- THE PEOPLES' EARTH DECLARATION: A Proactive Agenda for the Future
- SOUTHEAST ASIA CONTRIBUTION TO THE EARTH CHARTER
- 1993
- FREE TRADE AND THE IMAGINARY WORLDS OF ECONOMIC MODELERS
- THE GREENING OF GLOBAL REACH
- WE ARE AFRICANS
- NAFTA: A BAD AGREEMENT
- SUSTAINABILITY REQUIRES NEW ECONOMIC CONCEPTS
- ECOLOGICAL RECOVERY AND THE FEMININE PRINCIPLE
- THE BACKWARD ONES
- Economic Restructuring Through Community and Employee Ownership
- NORTHERN LIFESTYLES: WHAT IS EQUITABLE & SUSTAINABLE?
- From Urban Sprawl to Sustainable Human Communities
- Creating a Community Economy
- Getting Prices Right: Only a Partial Answer
- The Global Economy A Bad Deal for Women
- Sustainability: Principles Behind the Vision
- GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENTALISTS: THE POOR FIGHT BACK
- BEYOND GROWTH TO MATURITY
- WHY NOT FAIR TRADE AGREEMENTS?
- THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ROAD TO “DEVELOPMENT”
- CORPORATE AGRIBUSINESS: MONOPOLIZING SUSTENANCE
- FROM ECONOMIC GROWTH TO QUALITY OF LIFE
- CITIES, TRADE AND ECOLOGICAL DEFICITS
- POWER, POVERTY, ECONOMIC INTEGRATION & BRETTON WOODS
- TOWARD A PEOPLE'S PACIFIC
- THE COMPASSIONATE AND THRIFTY UNIVERSE
- FREE TRADE AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
- Economy, Ecology & Spirituality
- Small Farmers & Globalization
- What If......?
- Economic Colonialism
- Development and the Youth Culture
- 1994
- Making Commerce Sustainable
- Good Protectionism
- A People's Agenda
- Serious about Sustainability
- Development for People
- Let's Develop Human Societies
- Family Friend Cities
- Anyone Home at WB?
- Rethinking Global Governance
- Overlooked Case of Job Protection
- The GATT and Democracy
- PCD Principles
- Dark Victory of the New World Order
- Saying No to Development
- Sustainable Livelihoods & the Social Crisis
- Sustainable Development: PCD Concensus
- Sustainable Development: Contrasting Views
- Int. Convention on Debt
- The Case Against Globalization
- 1995
- THIRD WORLD WOMEN CHALLENGE THE GIVEN
- SOCIAL CAPITAL
- DEVELOPMENT DISPLACEMENT: WHOSE NATION IS IT?
- MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS: WHO'S THE REAL BOSS?
- BUILDING CITIZENS' AGENDAS
- A WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT AGENDA FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
- HABITAT II: PREPARING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
- HELP THE POOR, SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT: ELIMINATE DEBT AND END FOREIGN AID
- ENVIRONMENTAL LENDING MAY BE HARMFUL TO THE ENVIRONMENT
- SUSTAINABILITY AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: BEYOND BRETTON WOODS
- THE CITIZENS' AGENDA FOR CANADA
- PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS
- THE COPENHAGEN ALTERNATIVE DECLARATION
- OUR CITIES, OUR HOMES
- WHAT'S AHEAD FOR THE WORLD BANK? THE BIG PICTURE
- A NOT SO RADICAL AGENDA FOR A SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL FUTURE
- PROPERTY RIGHTS VERSUS LIVING RIGHTS: DEFINING ISSUES FOR HABITAT II
- 1996
- WINNING IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: CHILE'S DARK VICTORY
- ECONOMICS WITHOUT ETHICS: THE CRISIS OF SPIRITUALITY
- FOOD SECURITY FOR PEOPLE
- UNDERSTANDING MONEY
- THERE'S A DANGEROUS FLAW IN “GLOBAL ECONOMY” CONCEPT
- GLOBALIZATION AND THE DISMANTLING OF CANADIAN DEMOCRACY, VALUES AND SOCIETY
- ECO-HABITATS: FULFILLING A DREAM FOR HUMANITY
- LIMITS TO THE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF BUSINESS
- Profile of MARILYN MEHLMANN
- Profile of SARA LARRAIN R.
- Profile of VANDANA SHIVA
- 1997
- Political and Spiritual Awakening
- Rights of Money vs Persons
- Solutions Via Global Dialogue
- Money as a Social Disease
- Business Responsibility
- UN & the Corporate Agenda
- Profile of Nicanor "Nicky" Perlas
- Civil Society & Regional Security
- India's Popular Movements
- Learning Locally to Act Globally
- Why the Fuss About Stockholders?
- UN Partnerships
- Let's Try a Market Economy
- The UN Relationship to TNCs
