Davos Man, Peter S. Goodman
Davos Man, Peter S. Goodman
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Davos Man
How the Billionaires Devoured the World

Author: Peter S. Goodman

Narrator: Michael David Axtell

Unabridged: 13 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 01/18/2022


Synopsis

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 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”—members of the billionaire class—chronicling 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 revelatory exposé 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, 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.

About Peter S. Goodman

Peter S. Goodman is the Global Economics Correspondent for the New York Times. He was previously the NYT’s European economics correspondent, based in London, and the national economics correspondent, based in New York, where he played a leading role in the paper’s award-winning coverage of the Great Recession, including a series that was a Pulitzer finalist. Previously, he covered the Internet bubble and bust as the Washington Post’s telecommunications reporter, and served as WashPo’s China-based Asian economics correspondent. He is the author of Davos Man and Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy. He graduated from Reed College and completed a master’s in Vietnamese history from the University of California, Berkeley.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Zack on February 03, 2022

This is a good book. It’s a little preachy and by the end, the message is fairly one dimensional. However, this book is very important because it details how exactly global financial interests have come to control power in ways that suit their interests. The level of detail and sourcing is phenomena......more

Goodreads review by Emily on January 22, 2022

I won an uncorrected proof version of this book through Goodreads Giveaways. I liked it and found it to be very interesting and timely/current, but I don’t know if I am the most qualified person to rate and review it. I grasped all the themes and messages of the book and understood the author’s over......more

Goodreads review by Sherrie on January 22, 2022

***I won this book in a Goodreads Giveaway*** If you think the title is forceful, you should see the rest of the book. The author pulls no punches and does not even attempt to hide his disdain for the billionaire class and their shenanigans. This would have ruined the book for me had it not been so w......more

Goodreads review by William on March 24, 2022

There's honestly too much to go into indepth with this book. I think, generally, his criticisms of the billionaires is just, but I don't have a way to double check them. I think he pushes it too far and blames the billionaires for everything and he fails to place sufficient blame on the governments......more