Who the hell are Korten and Grossman? A Brief Profile of Anti-Corporate Activists

So Korten and Grossman are coming to speak in Houston, Austin and San Antonio during the first two weeks of April. I bounced a message to the Dallas Green Party list wondering what we'd failed to do to get K & G to speak in Dallas. Someone asked 'who the hell are Korten and Grossman?' Maybe my answer will be useful or at least interesting to the Monkeyfist audience too.

David Korten has been a professor and is now an anti-corporation activist. I know him primarily as the author of Globalizing Civil Society, which is a neat little book, The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism which I'm presently reading, as well as his When Corporations Rule the World, which I've just finished. He's written widely in this area. A more detailed précis of Korten's career is available.

Richard L. Grossman is the author of Taking Care of Business: Citizenship and the Charter of Incorporation, which I want to read but have been unable to find. Grossman is a member of POCLAD, Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy, which is one of the leading NGOs in this area, at least as far as I know. Also available on the Web: a review of Grossman's Taking Care of Business; an essay of Grossman's called "The Relationship of Humans to Corporations"; and another at "Ending Corporate Governance".