Davos Man

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Etymology

Coined by American political scientist Samuel P. Huntington in the early 2000s.

Noun

Davos Man (plural (uncommon) Davos Men)

  1. The global financial elite, represented as a stereotypical attendee of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
    Coordinate term: Davos Woman
    • 2004, Samuel P. Huntington, “Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite”, in The National Interest‎[1], number 75, →ISSN, pages 5–18:
      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.
    • 2005 February 3, Timothy Garton Ash, “Davos man's death wish”, in The Guardian‎[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 1 July 2017:
      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.
    • 2017 March 28, Alan Johnson, “Why Brexit Is Best for Britain: The Left-Wing Case”, in The New York Times‎[3], archived from the original on 9 November 2020:
      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.
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