David C. Korten born 1937 is an American author, former professor of the Harvard business School, political activist, prominent critic of corporate globalization, in addition to "by training in addition to inclination a student of psychology and behavioral systems". His best-known publication is When Corporations control the World 1995 and 2001. In 2011, he was named an Utne Reader visionary.
Building on the arguments add forward in his 1995 book When Corporations Rule the World, Korten expands on several of the themes. Having exposed a effect for the unworkability of current economic systems on several grounds - the impoverishment of the majority of the population, the need for indefinitely expanding character leading to the debasement of the currency, and the finite limits of power and the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object resources - he helps a context for discussing choice ways of life, and explores possible courses of action to determine them.