Behind the News: Saving the World From Davos Man
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🗓️ 2 February 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Doug speaks with Peter Goodman, author of Davos Man, on plutocrats and their pretensions. Then Vijay Prashad, director of The Tricontinental, outlines a plan to save the world, essentially from Davos Man.
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| 0:33.0 | Hello and welcome to Behind the News. |
| 0:35.0 | My name is Doug Henry. |
| 0:36.0 | Time is tight, so I'll be quick. |
| 0:38.0 | Today, two perspectives on global power. |
| 0:41.0 | Peter Goodman talks about Davos Man and Vijay Prasad outlines a plan to save the world, |
| 0:46.0 | essentially, from Davos Man. |
| 0:48.0 | Davos has become world famous as the annual gathering place for the global elite, |
| 0:52.0 | sponsored by the World Economic Forum, and held every January in a mountain village in Switzerland. |
| 0:57.0 | The Forum and its founder, Klaus Schwab, like to present themselves as a bunch of do-gooders, |
| 1:01.0 | but they're anything but. |
| 1:03.0 | Peter Goodman, a reporter for The New York Times, is just out with a book on the event, |
| 1:07.0 | its pretensions and its realities, called Davos Man. |
| 1:10.0 | How billionaires devoured the world, published by Custom House. |
| 1:13.0 | Peter Goodman. |
| 1:14.0 | Davos is a shorthand for the annual conference of the World Economic Forum, |
| 1:18.0 | an entity that promotes itself as committed to improving the state of the world, |
| 1:22.0 | even though it's mainly a gathering of very rich and very powerful. |
| 1:25.0 | Could you give us a thumbnail sketch of the Forum and its founder, Klaus Schwab? |
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