David Korten Quotes
In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.
Conservatives generally do not have a problem with the businesses of the country exercising a great deal of control over the government, but the left wing usually does. However, when it is multinational corporations that pressure the government, then nationalist conservatives are distressed and join with the left lest “foreigners” control things rather than their own rich people.
A decade after he made this observation, the external economic markets were not happy with the ways the Greek Government had handled the economy and the nation became insolvent. The IMF, World Bank and the other European nations bailed Greece out be making emergency loans, but then they imposed conditions on the Greek Government that was completely contrary to what the Greek politicians and the Greek voters wanted. The Greek national government had almost no control over their own economy.
David C. Korten (born 1937) is an American author, former professor of the Harvard Business School, political activist, prominent critic of corporate globalization, and "by training and inclination a student of psychology and behavioral systems". His best-known publication is When Corporations Rule the World (1995 and 2001). In 2011, he was named an Utne Reader visionary.
