Every year, people from around the world converge on Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum. While the WEF features a host of presentations and formal events, in many ways it is really a huge networking event for the world's financial elite. Powerful people from government and the private sector rub elbows and make a point of seeing and being seen. This longread is a chronicle of one writer's experience in trying to understand what really happens at Davos.
"Magic Mountain" by Nick Paumgarten
Published in the New Yorker, March 5, 2012
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/05/120305fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=all
Eric
that looks awesome, I want to go
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