Visionary economist David Korten introduces a national conversation series, New Economy 2.0, on CSRwire Talkback based on his acclaimed book, Agenda for a New Economy, 2^nd edition. For the next several weeks, Korten will summarize the main points and key lessons of each chapter of his book, leading from a dissection of what went wrong in the “phantom wealth Wall Street economy” to the presentation of a vision of a world of real wealth Main Street economies that support strong middle class societies, honor real market principles and work in partnership with Earth’s biosphere.

New Economy 2.0 envisions an economy in which life is the defining value and power resides in people and communities. It contrasts with the popular New Economy 1.0 fantasy of a magical high-tech economy liberated from environmental reality and devoted to the growth of phantom wealth financial assets.

This exciting, new series is co-published by CSRwire and YES! Magazine.

David Korten (livingeconomiesforum.org) is the author of Agenda for a New Economy, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community and the international best seller When Corporations Rule the World. He is board chair of YES! Magazine, co-chair of the New Economy Working Group and a founding member of Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE).

The arguments presented here are developed in greater detail in Agenda for a New Economy available from the YES! Magazine Web store.

Posts

• Needed: A Serious National Conversation On Economic Values And Priorities
• Defection
• Wall Street’s Zero Sum Game: Phantom Wealth
• A Bad Theory
• Wall Street Illusionists
• Good Debt/Bad Debt
• A Real-Market Alternative
• Look to the Ecologists
• War Against the Middle Class
• Licensed Criminal Syndicates
• Phantom Expectations
• A System Designed to Crash
• The End of Empire
• Greed is Not a Virtue
• Our Human Nature
• The World of Our Dreams
• Learning From The Biosphere
• Design for Life
• Making a Living
• Seven Interventions
• Shut Down the Con
• But What About My 401(k)?
• The Great Stock Scam
• Mapping Uncharted Waters
• United We Stand; Divided We Fall
• Democracy’s Epic Moments
• When the People Lead
• Cultural Mind Control
• Liberate America
• Win the Culture War
• A Three-Fold Change Strategy
• Culture Workers
• How to Make a Difference
• A Presidential Declaration Of Independence From Wall Street - Part 1
• A Presidential Declaration of Independence from Wall Street - Part 2
• The Path to Real Prosperity