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A scathing account of the lords of finance's annual meeting, by the editor of Harper's.A scathing account of the lords of finance's annual meeting, by the editor of Harper's.Hide synopsis
The Agony of Mammon: The Imperial World Economy Explains Itself to the Membership in Davos, Switzerland – Hardcover
(1998)
by Lewis H Lapman, Lewis Lapham
Publisher: Verso Books/ An Imprint of the New Left Books,
Description:Brand New in Brand New jacket. Academic, Scholarly, Research....Brand New in Brand New jacket. Academic, Scholarly, Research. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 84 pp. Flawless, untouched book; still in plasic wrapper (foil). Likely first edition! Lapham, a writer known for his not always flattering portraits of America's possessing classes, was among the quorum of journalists in attendance for the 27th annual meeting (1998). Attentive to the program of scheduled events, he encountered finance minister and professor of economics gazing into the glass of the future and seeing little except their own reflections. After five days at Davos, he understood that the masters of markets and captains of commercial empire knew as little about the likely movements of the global economy as the waiters plying them with plum brandy and cheese fondue. Read it and weep for the have-nots!
Publisher: Verso Books/ An Imprint of the New Left Books,
Description:Brand New in Brand New jacket. Academic, Scholarly, Research....Brand New in Brand New jacket. Academic, Scholarly, Research. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 84 pp. Brand new, wrapped, unopened copy and dj. Synopsis: Welcome to the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, "five days and six nights of rarefied discussion attended by at least 2, 000 gratifyingly important people from 150 countries, " with "heads of state, finance ministers, policy intellectuals, Nobel Prize-winning physicists, corporate executives as thick upon the ground as pine needles." Among the 1998 notables: Bill Gates, George Soros, Newt Gingrich, and Helmut Kohl (who, in his opening remarks, informs his audience that the euro is coming and they'd better get used to it, citing the leadership example of his mother, "a marvelous woman, as wise as she was strong-minded, who taught her children to eat the meals placed in front of them on the kitchen table without sniveling objection"). Your guide to this congregation of the international plutocracy is Harper's editor Lewis Lapham, and although he occasionally finds himself "at a loss to know which late-afternoon briefings to attend, the one about El Niño or the one about robots, " he manages to put the hype surrounding the global economy into a darkly humorous perspective worthy of comparison to Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad. In addition to his itinerary during the 1998 Davos summit, Lapham also provides an account of a later economic conference held in New York, which also serves as a recap of the extremely volatile year, and a dictionary of received ideas wherein we learn, to pick one example, that bureaucrats are "Enemies of Free Enterprise. No bureaucrat knows what it means to meet a payroll or take a risk. Europe has too many of them."
Publisher: Verso Books/ An Imprint of the New Left Books,
Description:Brand New in Brand New jacket. Academic, Scholarly, Research....Brand New in Brand New jacket. Academic, Scholarly, Research. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 84 pp. Flawless, untouched book; still in plasic wrapper (foil). Likely first edition! Lapham, a writer known for his not always flattering portraits of America's possessing classes, was among the quorum of journalists in attendance for the 27th annual meeting (1998). Attentive to the program of scheduled events, he encountered finance minister and professor of economics gazing into the glass of the future and seeing little except their own reflections. After five days at Davos, he understood that the masters of markets and captains of commercial empire knew as little about the likely movements of the global economy as the waiters plying them with plum brandy and cheese fondue. Read it and weep for the have-nots! .
