When Corporations Rule the World
When Corporations Rule the World
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DOI：
10.2307/259236
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发表时间：
1995
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D. Korten
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作者：
D. Korten
大卫·科顿说，我们人类靠故事生活，而现在统治我们社会的故事使我们走上了一条自我毁灭的道路。在这本意义深远的新书中，Korten分享了他寻找一个故事的结果，这个故事反映了人类知识和理解的完整性，并提供了一个足以满足我们时代需求的行动指南。Korten称我们目前的故事为神圣的货币和市场。它告诉我们，金钱是一切价值的尺度，是一切幸福的源泉。地球只是一个原材料的来源。不平等和环境破坏是不幸的，但不可避免。尽管许多人认识到这个故事宣扬了坏道德、坏科学和坏经济学，但它仍将是我们的指导故事，直到被一个符合我们对宇宙最深刻理解以及我们与宇宙关系的故事所取代。Korten提供了一个神圣的生命和活生生的地球故事，它植根于一个宇宙学，肯定我们是从一个活生生的地球本身诞生的生命，活的宇宙我们的健康和福祉取决于一个与地球生命共同体维持其自身--以及我们--生存条件的进程合作的经济。Korten提供了一个充满希望的愿景，阐述了采用这个故事将对人类生活和社会的各个方面产生的变革性影响。
We humans live by stories, says David Korten, and the stories that now govern our society set us on a path to certain self-destruction. In this profound new book, Korten shares the results of his search for a story that reflects the fullness of human knowledge and understanding and provides a guide to action adequate to the needs of our time. Korten calls our current story Sacred Money and Markets. Money, it tells us, is the measure of all worth and the source of all happiness. Earth is simply a source of raw materials. Inequality and environmental destruction are unfortunate but unavoidable. Although many recognize that this story promotes bad ethics, bad science, and bad economics, it will remain our guiding story until replaced by one that aligns with our deepest understanding of the universe and our relationship to it. To guide our path to a viable human future, Korten offers a Sacred Life and Living Earth story grounded in a cosmology that affirms we are living beings born of a living Earth itself born of a living universe. Our health and well-being depend on an economy that works in partnership with the processes by which Earth's community of life maintains the conditions of its own existence - and ours. Offering a hopeful vision, Korten lays out the transformative impact adopting this story will have on every aspect of human life and society.