Overview
AĀ San Francisco ChronicleĀ Bestseller Ā ā¢Ā An NPR Best Book of the Year
TheĀ New York TimesāsĀ Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionairesā systematic plunder of the worldābrazenly accelerated during the pandemicāhas transformed 21st-century life and dangerously destabilized democracy.
āDavos ManĀ will be read a hundred years from now as a warning.ā āEvan Osnos
āExcellent. A powerful, fiery book, and it could well be an essential one.āĀ Ā āNPR.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 affluentĀ people emerged from capitalismās triumphĀ in 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 āDavos Menāāmembers of the billionaire classāchronicling 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 Manās 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.
Goodmanās revelatoryĀ exposĆ©Ā of 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,Ā Davos ManĀ 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.
This book title, Davos Man (How the Billionaires Devoured the World) - 9780063078314, ISBN: 9780063078314, by Peter S. Goodman, published by HarperCollins (January 15, 2023) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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