The global economic system by its nature tends to favor large, competitive, resource-extractive and short-term. Our challenge is to create a global system that is supportive of small, local, cooperative, resource-efficient and long-term - a system that gives people confidence in their ability to create a normal life in harmony with nature. The goal is not to wall off one economy from another, but to create zones of local accountability and responsibility within which people can reclaim the power that is rightfully theirs to manage their economies in the common interest. The fundamental paradox of our time is that, in the name of market competition, we have created a system that has united corporations, but has divided people and placed them in competitive relationships with each other for the benefit of corporations. Human interests are best served by a system that separates corporations and forces them to compete among themselves for the benefit of the people in the spirit of true market competition. Let corporations compete with each other to make their profits. Let people and communities work together to create a good life for all.

David Korten. When corporations rule the world. - St. Petersburg: “Agency “Vit-print”, 2002. - 328 p.