1st Edition

The World Economic Forum and COVID-19 Corporatism and Neoliberalism in a Global Era

By Ioannis Papagaryfallou Copyright 2027
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is arguably the most important informal international organisation today. Every year, politicians, businesspeople, journalists, and academics flood to the otherwise quiet city of Davos to attend the Forum’s Annual Meeting. Nevertheless, the WEF is much more than a conference organiser, and its conscious effort to influence world politics has been visible for decades... Read more

Introduction. Chapter 1: Corporatism and Neoliberalism in Historical Perspective. Chapter 2: Corporatism and Neoliberalism as Global Systems of Accumulation. Chapter 3: The Transnational Capitalist Class and Transnational Planning Groups. Chapter 4: The World Economic Forum’s Corporatist Ideology. Chapter 5: The World Economic Forum and Corporatism after the Polycrisis.

Biography

Ioannis Papagaryfallou holds a PhD in International Relations and is a Research Assistant in Global Health at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK