Davos Man
How the Billionaire Class Devoured Democracy
Peter S. Goodman
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Davos Man
How the Billionaire Class Devoured Democracy
Peter S. Goodman
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A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller âą An NPR Best Book of the Year
The New York Times 'sGlobal Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires' systematic plunder of the worldâbrazenly accelerated during the pandemicâhas transformed 21st-century life and dangerously destabilized democracy.
" Davos Man will be read a hundred years from now as a warning." âEvan Osnos
"Excellent. A powerful, fiery book, and it could well be an essential one."âNPR.org
The 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 affluentpeople emerged from capitalism's triumphin the Cold War to loot the peace, depriving governments of the resources needed to serve their people, and leaving them tragically unprepared for the worst pandemic in a century.
Drawing on decades of experience covering the global economy, award-winning journalist Peter S. Goodman profiles five representative "Davos Men"âmembers of the billionaire classâchronicling how their shocking exploitation of the global pandemic has hastened a fifty-year trend of wealth centralization. Alongside this reporting, Goodman delivers textured portraits of those caught in Davos Man's wake, including a former steelworker in the American Midwest, a Bangladeshi migrant in Qatar, a Seattle doctor on the front lines of the fight against COVID, blue-collar workers in the tenements of Buenos Aires, an African immigrant in Sweden, a textile manufacturer in Italy, an Amazon warehouse employee in New York City, and more.
Goodman's revelatoryexposéof the global billionaire class reveals their hidden impact on nearly every aspect of modern society: widening wealth inequality, the rise of anti-democratic nationalism, the shrinking opportunity to earn a livable wage, the vulnerabilities of our health-care systems, access to affordable housing, unequal taxation, and even the quality of the shirt on your back. Meticulously reported yet compulsively readable, Davos Man is an essential read for anyone concerned about economic justice, the capacity of societies to grapple with their greatest challenges, and the sanctity of representative government.
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Part I
Global Pillage
Chapter 1
âHigh Up in the Mountainsâ
Davos Man in His Native Habitat
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue
- Part I: Global Pillage
- Chapter 1: âHigh Up in the Mountainsâ
- Chapter 2: âThe World That Our Fathers in World War II Wanted Us to Live Inâ
- Chapter 3: âSuddenly, the Orders Stoppedâ
- Chapter 4: âOur Chance to Fuck Them Backâ
- Chapter 5: âIt Had to Explodeâ
- Chapter 6: âEvery Stone I Looked Under Was a Blackstoneâ
- Chapter 7: âThey Are Now Licking Their Lipsâ
- Part II: Profiteering Off a Pandemic
- Chapter 8: âThey Are Not Interested in Our Concernsâ
- Chapter 9: âThereâs Always a Way of Making Moneyâ
- Chapter 10: âGrossly Underfunded and Facing Collapseâ
- Chapter 11: âWe Are Actually All Oneâ
- Chapter 12: âWeâre Not Safeâ
- Chapter 13: âThis Is Killing Peopleâ
- Chapter 14: âIs This a Time to Profit?â
- Chapter 15: âWe Will Get 100 Percent of Our Capital Backâ
- Part III: Resetting History
- Chapter 16: âNot Somebody Who Is Going to Disrupt Washingtonâ
- Chapter 17: âThe Money Is Right There in the Community Nowâ
- Chapter 18: âPut Money in Peopleâs Pocketsâ
- Chapter 19: âAt War Against Monopoly Powerâ
- Chapter 20: âTaxes, Taxes, Taxes. The Rest Is Bullshit.â
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
- About the Publisher