Treat the System, Not the Symptom

By David Korten | January 1, 2011

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About David Korten

Dr. David Korten is the author of Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth; Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth; The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism; and the international best sellers When Corporations Rule the World; and The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. He is board chair of YES! Magazine, president of the Living Economies Forum, a board member of Toward Ecological Civilization, a full member of the Club of Rome, and an associate fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies. He earned MBA and PhD degrees from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and served on the faculty of the Harvard Business School.

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