ABSTRACT
The September 2000 meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Prague posed a quandary for the Czech President, Vaclav Havel. Having led the velvet revolution in a mass non-violent ejection of communism in favor of liberal democracy, the former playwright and dissident was protecting 14,000 global financiers from 20,000 protestors with 11,000 police and 5,000 soldiers. Vaclav Havel's re-education is likely to be completed well before those in academia. Mainstream management teachers and researchers treat business as a realm that is independent from politics, the state, and the economy. There are an increasing number of schisms between market-oriented corporate management and the people who make up the World's population. Patents and copyrights are only part of this problem for corporate management. Ownership is worthless unless there is control over access and usage that can be exchanged for a price in the marketplace.
