Davos: the failures' club | Editorial

World Economic Forum has taken on a less triumphalist tone since the boom years of the nineties and noughties - and it is nowhere near a solution to the world's problems Davos used to be the winners' club. Throughout the boom years of the 90s and noughties company chief executives would gather every winter high up in the Swiss Alps to discuss in a lordly fashion the world economy and how it could be revised to suit their objectives and views: more globalised, more marketised. But in the five yea...