Works by
David C. Korten
(Writer)

Population And Social Development Management: A Challenge For Management Schools (Date?)
Board book

The Life Game: Survival Strategies in Ethiopian Folktales (1971)

Planned Change in A Traditional Society - Psychological Problems of Modernization in Ethiopia (1972)

Defining Institutional Roles in the National Family Planning Program (1973)

Population Growth and the Quality of Life in Nicaragua
(1973)

Integrated Approaches to Family Planning Services Delivery (1975)

Population Programs in the Post Bucharest Era: Toward a Third Pathway (1975)

Strategy, Leadership, and Context in Family Planning: A Three-Country Comparison (1977)

Community Organization and Rural Development: A Learning Process Approach (1980)

The Management Institutes Working Group on Social Development: Background Information and Work Plans (1980)
AIM-RDMP paper

Bureaucratic Reorientation for Participatory Rural Devopment (1981)
National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration working paper

Bureaucracy and the Poor: Closing the Gap (1983)

Learning From USAID Field Experience: Institutional Development and the Dynamics of the Project Process  (1983)
National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration working paper

People-Centered Development: Contributions Toward Theory and Planning Frameworks (1984) by David C. Korten with Rudi Klauss, ed.

Community Management: Asian Experience and Perspectives (1986)

Micro-Policy Reform: The Role of Private Voluntary Development Agencies (NASPAA working paper) (1986)
National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration working paper

Voluntary Organizations and the Challenge of Sustainable Development (1989)

Getting to the 21st Century: Voluntary Action and the Global Agenda (1990)

When Corporations Rule the World (1995)
Penetrating analysis of how global corporations dominate people and their governments, offering practical routes to a possible alternative future in which societies are made more prosperous, more just, and more easily sustainable.

The Post Corporate World: Life After Capitalism (1999)
This book examines the growing gap between the promises of the new global capitalism and the reality of financial insecurity, inequality, social breakdown, spiritual emptiness, and environmental destruction. A well-reasoned, deeply spiritual look at the current economic system spinning out of control. He draws on insights from biology and evolutionary principles, making economic terms and principles more understandable through the use of simple metaphors of living systems.

Globalizing Civil Society: Reclaiming Our Right to Power (2006)

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community (2006)
The threat of continued warfare to the future of humanity has become dire. "The Great Turning explores that threat in detail and provides an equally detailed plan for meeting -- and overcoming -- it. Written in the author's trademark clear, compelling style, this timely book uncovers the roots of Empire in ancient Athens and charts the long transition from the institutions of monarchy to those of the global economy as the favored instruments of imperialism. Korten then discusses the promise of early America as a democracy dedicated to spreading liberty and freedom -- and the failure of the "American experiment" through the contemporary takeover of the U.S. government by corporate plutocrats, religious theocrats, and neoconservative militarists in pursuit of naked imperial ambition. Korten draws on sources as varied as evolution, developmental psychology, and the wisdom of religious mystics to make the case for "Earth Community" -- a people-centered, community-based future that is both possible and necessary.