David Korten , in his 1995 book When Corporations Rule the World , tried to make a case for the unworkability of current economic systems on several grounds: Impoverishment of the majority of the population Need for indefinitely expanding credit, leading to the debasement of the currency The finite limits of energy and material resources Korten critiques current methods of economic development led by the Bretton Woods institutions and asserts his desire to rebalance the powe