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David Korten: Spiritual Awakening, a New Economy, and the End of Empire

Korten's work, including his most recent book, Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, proposes stirring changes in our culture's relationship with corporations, power and finance. "We have been living in a trance in a world of illusion," he says. "We have lost sight of our spiritual nature just as we have lost sight of the distinction between money and real wealth. We have lost sight of ourselves as manifestations of the spiritual force of creation. It is now within our means to unleash our positive potential and create the world of which humans have dreamed for millennia."

Dr. David C. Korten is the author of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth (2009), and The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community (2006). His previous books include the international best-seller When Corporations Rule the World; and The Post-Corporate World: Life after Capitalism. Korten is board chair of YES! Magazine; a board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE); co-chair of the New Economy Working Group, founded in late 2008 with the Institute for Policy Studies; founder and president of the People-Centered Development Forum; a founding associate of the International Forum on Globalization; and a member of the Social Ventures Network, and the Club of Rome. He holds MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the Stanford Business School, has 30 years experience as a development professional in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and has served as a Harvard Business School professor, a captain in the US Air Force, a Ford Foundation Project Specialist, and a regional adviser to the US Agency for International Development.

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