Klaus Schwab

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Klaus Schwab is Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum.

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What Kind of Capitalism Do We Want?
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What Kind of Capitalism Do We Want?

Dec 2, 2019 Klaus Schwab welcomes the long-overdue momentum behind a stakeholder corporate-governance model and shows how to develop it.

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Ending Short-Termism by Keeping Score
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Ending Short-Termism by Keeping Score

Oct 17, 2019 Klaus Schwab calls on businesses and policymakers to adopt new metrics built around sustainable development.

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The Great Reconstruction
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The Great Reconstruction

Jan 21, 2019 Klaus Schwab calls for a new global effort to address the effects of rapid economic and technological change.

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Grappling With Globalization 4.0
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Grappling With Globalization 4.0

Nov 5, 2018 Klaus Schwab argues that global-governance processes and institutions must be redesigned from the ground up.

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The Power of Dialogue in a Disrupted World

The Power of Dialogue in a Disrupted World

Feb 14, 2018 Klaus Schwab warns that the same forces breaking down traditional borders could end up creating worse divides.

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Larry Hatheway

The old central-bank playbook of slashing interest rates to spur consumption, investment, and employment has become less effective since the 2008 financial crisis. Yet without effective tools and the public's confidence, central banks will be unable to rise to the occasion when the next recession arrives.

Why Countries Should Tax Global Income

Ricardo Hausmann

More inclusive global growth in a world with free capital mobility does not require a “global” government that taxes and redistributes, but it does require global taxation and tax cooperation. Countries should be free to set their own taxes, but they should be required to share tax-relevant information.

The Day After NATO

Joschka Fischer

French President Emmanuel Macron has drawn criticism for describing NATO as brain dead and pursuing a rapprochement with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But now that a wayward America could abandon the continent at any moment, Macron's argument for European defense autonomy is difficult to refute.