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The Rising Challenge of Corporate Control of Our Lives

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November/December 2000
David C. Korten Utne Reader 
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America's economy has been fundamentally transformed in the past 50 years. In the end, what we have created looks remarkably like a classical market economy of small buyers and small sellers. We call our version a mindful market economy, because we recognize the importance of mindfulness in all our economic choices--from the choice of our own employment to the nature of our production processes to the products we produce and buy--mindfulness not only of our own needs but also of the impact of our choices on society and the planet.

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David C. Korten is the author of The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism and When Corporations Rule the World. He is a co-founder and chairman of the board of the Positive Futures Network, publishers of Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures, and the founder and president of the People-Centered Development Forum.

All essays reprinted from Imagine: What America Could Be in the 21st Century, edited by Marianne Williamson. Permission granted by Rodale, Emmaus, PA 18098. Available wherever books are sold or directly from the publisher by calling 800/848-4735 or visiting www.rodalestore.com

Join the revolution! Throughout November and December Cafe Utne will host discussions with several of the visionary authors who contributed essays to Imagine. For a full schedule, go to The Salon

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