Peter S. Goodman is the Global Economics Correspondent for the New York Times, based in London. He was previously the NYT's national economic correspondent, based in New York, where he played a leading role in the paper's award-winning coverage of the Great Recession, including a series that was a Pulitzer finalist. Previously, he covered the Internet bubble and bust as The Washington Post's telecommunications reporter, and served as WashPo's China-based Asian economics correspondent. He is the author of Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy. He graduated from Reed College and completed a master's in Vietnamese history from the University of California, Berkeley.
"Powerful. ... Goodman's reporting is biting and bitterly funny.
... Davos Man shows us that today's extreme wealth is inextricably
linked to a great crime, perhaps the greatest one of this century:
the hijacking of our democracy." -- Washington
Post
"A meticulously researched, clearly reported and truly infuriating
history of the way the top 1% of the world has systematically
arranged the way societies operate in order to become even richer,
all to the detriment of the rest of us. ... The book serves as a
call to arms and an invitation to fight back against the continued
unabashed pillaging of all economies by those who least need it."
-- San Francisco Chronicle
"Excellent. ... An angry, powerful look at the economic inequality
that's been brought into sharp relief by the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
A powerful, fiery book, and it could well be an essential one." --
NPR.org
"A biting, uproarious yet vital and deadly serious account of the
profound damage the billionaire class is inflicting on the world.
Peter S. Goodman guides the reader through the hidden stories and
twisted beliefs of some of the titans of finance and industry, who
continually rationalize their bad behavior to themselves." --
JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Economics
"Unflinching and authoritative, Peter Goodman's Davos Man will be
read a hundred years from now as a warning, bellowed from the
blessed side of the velvet rope, about a slow-motion scandal that
spans the globe. Deliciously rich with searing detail, the clarity
is reminiscent of Tom Wolfe, let loose in the Alps, in search of
hypocrisies and vanities." -- EVAN OSNOS, National Book
Award-winning author of Age of Ambition and
Wildland
"Well-written and well-reported. ... A passionate denunciation of
the mega-rich." -- The Economist
"One of the great financial investigative journalists, Peter S.
Goodman delivers a meticulously detailed account of how the
billionaire class has hijacked the world's economy, feasting on
calamity, shirking taxes, all the while spouting bromides about
compassionate capitalism. I so wish this tale of limitless greed
and hypocrisy was a novel or a mini-series and not the truth about
the world in which we live. Reader, prepare to be enraged." --
BARBARA DEMICK, author of Nothing to Envy
and Eat the Buddha
"New York Times global economics correspondent Goodman mounts a
scathing critique of the greed, narcissism, and hypocrisy that
characterize those in 'the stratosphere of the globe-trotting
class'... An urgent, timely, and compelling message with nearly
limitless implications." -- Kirkus Reviews
(starred review)
"Impressively detailed. ... Very readable, extensively reported.
... A well-researched and lively explanation of how the global
economy works, and the turning points that have enabled
profiteering by the ultra-rich while undermining societal and
democratic institutions." -- Charter
"The Times's global economics correspondent profiles five
billionaires (along with workers and migrants across the world) to
show how their exploitation of the pandemic has exacerbated
inequality across the globe." -- New York Times Book
Review
"Goodman is a skilled reporter whose stories of private affluence
and public squalor are filled with detail and human interest." --
Wall Street Journal
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