According to the World Bank, over the past four decades, China has lifted more than 800 million people out of extreme poverty…
Author: David Korten
Dr. David C. Korten is the founder and president of the Living Economies Forum, and co-founder and board chair emeritus of YES! Magazine.He is best known for his seminal books framing a new economy for the Ecological Civilization to which humanity must now transition. Learn more at https://davidkorten.org/
OPINION: China Has Defined Our Human Choices, Part One
In 2005, while serving as provincial party secretary of Zhejiang, Xi Jinping introduced what he called the Two Mountains Theory…
OPINION: Pete Hegseth Just Did America a Big Favor
Hegseth’s gathering put the choice squarely before them. And the generals did not have to wrestle with it in isolation. They looked each other in the eye…
ESSAY: How Do We Heal a Divided Nation?
What Fran and I learned in Indonesia stays with us: that even in silence, people can carry hope; that even within oppressive systems, breakthroughs are possible…
ESSAY: Re-imagining the American Dream
What better nation to pioneer this future than one composed of the world’s peoples?
OPINION: The Transition to Community Stakeholder Corporations
Imperial Shareholder Corporations trace their history back to the tradition and structure of the English East India Company…
ESSAY: Money, and the Great Transition
We are currently experiencing the final stage in a great 10,000-year human cultural transformation…
OPINION: ‘Being More’, Rather Than ‘Having More’
The fantasy that growing GDP benefits everyone and will ultimately create lives of effortless luxury for all has proven to be just that, a fantasy…