[PEN-L:33724] Davos...

[Kendall Grant Clark <kendall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

PEN-Lers,

I'm supposed to talk to a Bloomberg writer tomorrow about the history of
protests at Davos and about, as he put it, "how it appears that what the
protesters had to say turned out to be correct".

I'm wondering if folks here might want to speculate on how or whether they
think recent events (I suspect he's referring mainly to the 'crisis of
capitalism' of the past year, provoked by
Enron-Andersen-GlobalXing-telecom-crater-weak-stock-markets, etc.) have or
will change the tone among the "elites", i.e., the core constituencies at
Davos.

In other words, have you noticed signs that anything the Davos protesters
(and, for these purposes, I take them to be saying the same thing as the
WTO, G8 protesters) have been saying -- ranging from 'capitalist
globalization is a failure re: economic development for the 3rd world' to
'capitalism is a failure, period' -- has actually been heard by the sorts
of people and institutions represented at Davos?

Is that really how, for example, Stiglitz's book has been received? That
it will actually make a difference in the way the WTO/IMF work?

Thanks,
Kendall Clark
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