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Goodman, Peter S.
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World Economic Forum.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Economic aspects.
Billionaires.
Business and politics.
World politics.
Davos (Switzerland)
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Goodman, Peter S.
World Economic Forum.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Economic aspects.
Billionaires.
Business and politics.
World politics.
Davos (Switzerland)
MARC Display
Davos
man : how the billionaires devoured the world / Peter S. Goodman.
by
Goodman, Peter S.
Custom House, 2022.
Call #:
305.5234 G653d
Subjects
World Economic Forum.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Economic aspects.
Billionaires.
Business and politics.
World politics.
Davos
(Switzerland)
ISBN:
9780063078307 (hc.)
Alternate title:
How the billionaires devoured the world [
Davos
man]
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
viii, 472 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [413]-458) and index.
Summary:
"Da.vos Man n.|| A member of the global billionaire class that controls the majority of the world's wealth. A rare and dangerous predator who attacks without restraint -- expanding his territory and seizing the nourishment of others -- while he deftly assumes the guise of empathy and generosity, lulling his prey into submission. || ORIGIN The World Economic Forum in
Davos
, Switzerland, where the species is known to gather annually to cleanse its reputation." --Jacket.
"Drawing on decades of experience covering the global economy, award-winning journalist Peter S. Goodman profiles five representative
Davos
Men, chronicling how their shocking exploitation of the global pandemic has hastened a fifty-year trend of weath centralizaton: Jeff Bezos, the wealthiest man on earth; Stephen Schwarzman, head of private equity giant Blackstone; Larry Fink, the world's largest asset manager; Jamie Dimon, CEO if America's largest bank; and tech entrepreneur Marc Benioff. Alongside this reporting, Goodman delivers textured portraits of those caught in
Davos
Man's wake, including a former seeelworker on th American Midwest, a Bangladeshi migrant in Qatar, a Seattle doctor on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19, 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."
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