The billionaires, business leaders and other elites who gathered in Davos praised the president’s policies, yet research on the politics of economic growth suggests it’s too soon to celebrate.
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The Conversation scholars analyze a few of the key themes and speeches that punctuated the three-day gathering of global elites in the Alps.
French companies will no longer be ‘forbidden to fail’ and ‘forbidden to succeed,’ the French president tells the World Economic Forum.
The global elites are paying attention.
Trump’s keynote address in Davos struck a discordant note with many of those in attendance, including this one.
The treasury secretary said a weak dollar would be ‘good’ for the U.S. Here’s why he’s wrong.
The French president said he would eliminate all coal-fired plants in his country by 2021, while his US counterpart is pushing policies intended to make them more profitable. Either way, the laws of economics will win.
It will be the private remarks between senior Australian business leaders and foreign investors at Davos that will likely be the most consequential for the Australian economy in the coming few years.
The movement against globalisation has shifted from developing to developed countries.
China’s actions in the South China Sea are getting scant attention at Davos. But if the Chinese set a precedent for other rogue nations, there will be a profound impact on global free trade.
A business and humanities scholar advises the president to pack three novels and a children’s story for his long transatlantic flight to Switzerland aboard Air Force One.
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Director of Shoah Foundation, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Venable Professor of Law, University of Baltimore
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Professor of Ethics and Business Law, University of St. Thomas
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Development & Transformation, University of Manchester
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Lecturer In Human Geography, University of Sussex
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Reader, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester
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Professor of Economic Geography, Clark University
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Associate Professor of Business, Boston University
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Professor of International Political Economy, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Research Associate Environment, Trade & Security, University of Waterloo
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Professor of History, University of Michigan