Agenda For A New Economy

Today’s economic crisis is the worst since the Great Depression. However, as David Korten shows in this timely new book, the steps being taken to address it including pouring trillions of dollars into bailouts for the Wall Street institutions that created the mess – do nothing to deal with the reality of a failed economic system. The financial failure now in the public spotlight is only the tip of the iceberg. The system’s social and environmental failures are even more destructive. Putting patches on a failed system is like treating a cancer with band-aids.