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When Corporations Rule the World
by David C. Korten

There is not a very positive view of people in this book. The ideal that people are naturally bad is an overwhelming concept in the book, When Corporations Rule the Wold by David Korten. The book examines the nature, recent developments, and policies of corporations around the wold. Korten find nothing good or positive, instead he focuses on how corporations are like cancerous tumors on America and how we can rid ourselves of these cancers.
He sees the planet's living spaces being eaten up for the benefit of powerful corporations and financial institutions. He sees these once useful institutions turning into instruments of a market tyranny that are destroying livelihoods, displacing people, and feeding on life in an insatiable quest for money. It forces us all to act in ways destructive of our families, communities, our nature, and ourselves.
He believes human survival depends on a community-based, people-centered......

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