Davos Man

English Alternative forms en Davos man Etymology en Q19074 in the early 2000s. Noun Davos man Davos Men<q:uncommon> The global financial elite, represented as a stereotypical attendee of the World Economic Forum in Davos. en Davos Woman en w:Samuel P. Huntington Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite The National Interest 5–18 2004 https://www.jstor.org/stable/42897520 75 0884-9382 The rewards of an increasingly integrated global economy have brought forth a new global elite. Labeled ‘Davos Men’, ‘gold-collar workers’ or . . . ‘cosmocrats’, this emerging class is empowered by new notions of global connectedness. It includes academics, international civil servants and executives in global companies, as well as successful high-technology entrepreneurs. en-GB w:Timothy Garton Ash Davos man's death wish w:The Guardian 2005-02-03 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/feb/03/globalisation.comment 0261-3077 So Davos man has a troublesome pre-history of combining brilliance and stupidity, of being blinded by national and ideological prejudice to his own long-term interest and destroying with one hand what he has built with the other. https://web.archive.org/web/20170701050723/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/feb/03/globalisation.comment en March 28 2017 w:Alan Johnson Why Brexit Is Best for Britain: The Left-Wing Case w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/opinion/why-brexit-is-best-for-britain-the-left-wing-case.html Although Lexiteers have little patience for the national nihilism of “Davos Man,” the globalist elite, we are no xenophobes. It has been a colossal error by Davos Man left-wingers to think of nation-states as embarrassing anachronisms hostile to democracy. https://web.archive.org/web/20201109034820/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/opinion/why-brexit-is-best-for-britain-the-left-wing-case.html en Personifications en terms derived from toponyms