David Korten

David C. Korten (* 1937 in Longview, Washington ) is an American author and critic of globalization.

Korten graduated in 1955 at Longview 's RA Long high school from. Korten received the M.B.A. and Ph.D. Stanford University Graduate School of Business. During the Vietnam War he served as a captain in the U.S. Air Force. After the war he worked as a professor at Harvard University. Later, he worked for several years for the U.S. development assistance in Asia. In 1990 he founded the People- Centered Development Forum, together with other and became its President.

Korten used two models to the relation of man to the earth to describe the "Cowboy" - and the " space ship " model. The "Cowboy " model is that most people consider the Earth as an inexhaustible reservoir of raw materials to the human species to feed and that these resources are constantly being renewed. In reality, the earth is similar, according to Korten more like a " spaceship" in which the resources are far more limited and in which man must strive continuously to renew this active and maintain it.

Works

• The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. McGraw- Hill 2006, ISBN 978-1887208079
• Getting to the 21st century. Voluntary action and the global agenda. Kumarian Press, West Hartford, Conn. , 1990, ISBN 0-931816 -84 X

• The failure of Bretton Woods. In: Jerry Mander et al ( eds.): Black Book globalization. Riemann, Munich 2002, pp. 58-72, ISBN 3-570-50025- X