Davos Man How the Billionaires Devoured the World

Peter S. Goodman

eBook - 2022

A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller • An NPR Best Book of the YearThe New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires' systematic plunder of the world—brazenly accelerated during the pandemic—has transformed 21st-century life and dangerously destabilized democracy."Davos Man will be read a hundred years from now as a warning." —Evan Osnos"Excellent. A powerful, fiery book, and it could well be an essential one." —NPR.orgThe history of the last half century in America, Europe, and other major economies is in large part the story of wealth flowing upward. The most affluent people emerged from capitalism's triumph in the Cold War to loot the peace, depriving go...vernments of the resources needed to serve their people, and leaving them tragically unprepared for the worst pandemic in a... more