Geography Is Back in the G-Zero World

Geography Is Back in the G-Zero World

"Davos Man" was what the late renowned political scientist Samuel Huntington branded those who make the deep winter journey to the small town in Switzerland, of the same name, to attend the World Economic Forum, the world's most elite gathering of state leaders, multinational corporate chiefs, financial and economic gurus, and the world's richest people. The annual clock has struck - and the World Economic Forum meeting attendees gather today for a formal start tomorrow.

The world Davos Man lived in was abundant in clarity until a decade ago. The financial sector's wealth-generating innovations out-stripped nearly every other economic option and thus a world of diminishing friction for the movement of capital and freedom for the evolution of a global financial architecture became central to Davos Man's priorities.

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