David Korten has fleshed out the alternative to the corporate Wall Street economy: a Main Street economy based on locally owned, community-oriented “living enterprises” whose success is measured as much by their positive impact on people and the environment as by their positive balance sheet.

We're all conspiracy theorists. Some of us just hide it better than others. Conspiracy theorists do not wear tin-foil hats (for the most part). They are not just a few kooks lurking on the paranoid fringes of society with bizarre ideas about shape-shifting reptilian aliens running society in secret. They walk among us. They are us. Everyone loves a good conspiracy. Yet conspira...(展开全部)

We're all conspiracy theorists. Some of us just hide it better than others. Conspiracy theorists do not wear tin-foil hats (for the most part). They are not just a few kooks lurking on the paranoid fringes of society with bizarre ideas about shape-shifting reptilian aliens running society in secret. They walk among us. They are us. Everyone loves a good conspiracy. Yet conspira...(展开全部)

We're all conspiracy theorists. Some of us just hide it better than others. Conspiracy theorists do not wear tin-foil hats (for the most part). They are not just a few kooks lurking on the paranoid fringes of society with bizarre ideas about shape-shifting reptilian aliens running society in secret. They walk among us. They are us. Everyone loves a good conspiracy. Yet conspira...(展开全部)

We're all conspiracy theorists. Some of us just hide it better than others. Conspiracy theorists do not wear tin-foil hats (for the most part). They are not just a few kooks lurking on the paranoid fringes of society with bizarre ideas about shape-shifting reptilian aliens running society in secret. They walk among us. They are us. Everyone loves a good conspiracy. Yet conspira...(展开全部)

In the 17th century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next 300 years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of human endeavour, this vision perpetuated a hidden yet persistent agenda: the delusion that human nature and society could be fit...(展开全部)

吴敬琏，1954年毕业于复旦大学经济系。现任国务院发展研究中心研究员、中欧国际工商学院（CEIBS）宝钢经济学教席教授、中国社会科学院研究生院教授、北京大学经济学院博士生导师、国际经济学会（IEA）荣誉主席。主要研究领域为理论经济学、比较经济制度分析、中国社会转型的理论和政策。他倡导并努力推进市场化、法治化和民主化改革，是“市场取向改革论”的主要代表人物之一，对中国改革的思想理论和实践有着重要的贡献。他也是经济体制比较研究学科的开创者之一，引介传播了众多对中国改革有益的现代经济理论和国际经验。 马国川，财经杂志主笔。1971年生，河北威县人，曾供职于中国改革杂志社、经济观察报社。多年来关注中国改革进程，“对时代性的课题有敏锐的触悟与捕捉”（金耀基评语）。已出版《大碰撞》、《风雨兼程》、《我与八十年代》、《没有皇帝的中国》等书。《大碰撞》是第一部全景式...(展开全部)

In the 17th century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next 300 years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of human endeavour, this vision perpetuated a hidden yet persistent agenda: the delusion that human nature and society could be fit...(展开全部)

Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, th...(展开全部)