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The Path to a Sustainable World

A 2020 Davos Reader

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Table of Contents

January 16, 2020

Snapshot January 16, 2020

Capitalism Must Reform to Survive

From Shareholders to Stakeholders

January/February 2019

Comment January/February 2019

How a World Order Ends

And What Comes in Its Wake

January/February 2020

Essay January/February 2020

The Clash of Capitalisms

The Real Fight for the Global Economy’s Future

Branko Milanovic

January/February 2019

Comment January/February 2019

The Age of Uneasy Peace

Chinese Power in a Divided World

July/August 2019

Essay July/August 2019

A World Safe for Autocracy?

China’s Rise and the Future of Global Politics

Jessica Chen Weiss

July/August 2019

Essay July/August 2019

With Great Demographics Comes Great Power

Why Population Will Drive Geopolitics

Nicholas Eberstadt

November/December 2019

Essay November/December 2019

War Is Not Over

What the Optimists Get Wrong About Conflict

Tanisha M. Fazal and Paul Poast

September/October 2019

Essay September/October 2019

Trump’s Assault on the Global Trading System

And Why Decoupling From China Will Change Everything

Chad P. Bown and Douglas A. Irwin

January/February 2020

Essay January/February 2020

The Starving State

Why Capitalism’s Salvation Depends on Taxation

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Todd N. Tucker, and Gabriel Zucman

September 23, 2019

Snapshot September 23, 2019

Climate Change Is Already Killing Us

How Our Warmer and Wetter Planet Is Getting Sicker and Deadlier by the Day

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

January/February 2019

Essay January/February 2019

Deepfakes and the New Disinformation War

The Coming Age of Post-Truth Geopolitics

Robert Chesney and Danielle Citron

Essay May/June 2019

The Real Dangers of an AI Arms Race

September/October 2019

September/October 2019

The Population Bust

Demographic Decline and the End of Capitalism as We Know It

Zachary Karabell

March/April 2019

Essay March/April 2019

The Future of the Liberal Order Is Conservative

A Strategy to Save the System

Jennifer Lind and William C. Wohlforth

January/February 2020

Comment January/February 2020

How Poverty Ends

The Many Paths to Progress—and Why They Might Not Continue

Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo

November/December 2019

Essay November/December 2019

The Progressive Case Against Protectionism

How Trade and Immigration Help American Workers

Kimberly Clausing

July/August 2019

Essay July/August 2019

The Global Economy’s Next Winners

What It Takes to Thrive in the Automation Age

Susan Lund, James Manyika, and Michael Spence

March/April 2016

Comment March/April 2016

Middle-Class Heroes

The Best Guarantee of Good Governance

January/February 2020

Essay January/February 2020

Adapt or Perish

Preparing for the Inescapable Effects of Climate Change

Alice Hill and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz

January 02, 2020

Snapshot January 02, 2020

The New Nordic Model

How to Reconcile Free Trade, Patriotism, and Inclusivity