The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism

I was very very impressed by Korten's analysis of how capitalism has gone wrong, and how current law gives corporations goals that are bad for society as a whole. I was also very very impressed with his educated, well-thought-out, and creative solutions, such as changing the notion that corporations are in some senses legally "persons". What annoyed me, however, was the way he got from his analysis to his solutions, which was a new-age metaphor with ecology and evolution. Look, economics is not ecology, and having all of this crap in an otherwise fantastic book is going to make many potential supporters say, "just another tree-hugging wacko, ignore him"! As one of the most knowledgeable and articulate members of the anti-corporate show more movement, Korten has a responsibility to show to mainstream, non tree-hugging people, that his position is a moderate, sensible, reasoned solution, and is not associated with deep ecology, anti-technological movements, or socialism! The only way for us to win is to seem reasonable, to recruit people who want the material results of capitalism, and to avoid alienation at all costs! This book is two steps forward and one step back. show less