Agenda for a New Economy From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth

Name: Agenda for a New Economy From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth
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ISBN: 9781605093758

ISBN-10: 1605093750

ISBN-13: 9781605093758

Edition: 2nd 2010

Authors: David C. Korten

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As David Korten showed in the first edition of this hard-hitting book, the steps taken to address the financial meltdown including pouring trillions of dollars into bailouts for the Wall Street institutions that created the mess did nothing to deal with the reality of a failed economic system. Korten identified the deeper sources of the failure in Wall Street institutions that have perfected the art of creating money out of nothing, producing anything of real value in return. Its major players engaged in speculative trading, bought into asset bubbles, stripped corporate assets, created debt pyramids, and engaged in predatory lending in the mortgage and credit card markets. In this revised…

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List price: $15.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments



A Question of Values



The Case for a New Economy



Looking Upstream



Modern Alchemists and the Sport of Moneymaking



A Real-Market Alternative



More Than Tinkering at the Margins



The Case for Replacing Wall Street



What Wall Street Really Wants



Buccaneers and Privateers



The High Cost of Phantom Wealth



The End of Empire



Greed Is Not a Virtue; Sharing Is Not a Sin



A Living-Economy Vision



What People Really Want



At Home on a Living Earth



New Vision, New Priorities



A Living-Economy Agenda



Seven Points of Intervention



What About My ï¿½?



A Presidential Declaration of Independence from Wall Street I Hope I May One Day Hear



Navigating Uncharted Waters



When the People Lead, the Leaders Will Follow



A Visionary President Meets Realpolitik



Change the Story, Change the Future



Learning to Live, Living to Learn


Epilogue: The View From 2084


Notes


Index


About the Author