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Muh LIttle Bun of Selected WEF History
Global Power, Straight Up (1999)
Klaus Schwab, mastermind of the World Economic Forum and its Davos confab, has built the stickiest site on the planet. In the attention economy, where time is more valuable than money, it’s not easy getting the world’s top businesspeople and policymakers face-to-face. Throw in the specter of conference glut, and persuading movers and shakers to […]
https://www.wired.com/1999/12/schwab/
The history of the WEF in pictures (facebook)
https://www.facebook.com/worldeconomicforum/photos/a.10150228477601479/10150229212286479/
Jeffrey D. Sachs Website
The Global Competitiveness Report 1999 By Klaus Schwab, Michael Porter, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Andrew Warner
Sachs was the co-recipient of the 2015 Blue Planet Prize, the leading global prize for environmental leadership. He was twice named among Time magazine’s 100 most influential world leaders and has received 34 honorary degrees. The New York Times called Sachs “probably the most important economist in the world,” and Time magazine called Sachs “the world’s best-known economist.” A survey by The Economist ranked Sachs as among the three most influential living economists.
https://www.jeffsachs.org/reports/jw7kw9b3pn23p4pf9h64zk26p7h3hs
'Not-for-Profit Schwab Foundation Boasts Over $120 Million in Assets (as of twenty years ago)
a Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter May 31, 2000 12:01 am ET
A controversial not-for-profit foundation set up two years ago by Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, now holds assets valued at $120 million to $130 million, and he says he hopes to bring the total to $200 million.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB959717120495807978
Transcript of Economic Forum – One World, One Currency: Destination or Delusion? November 8, 2000
[Dastingly, one panelist even argued: "But I would say that the number of currencies will matter less because individuals will have greater options for hedging or choosing the currency in which to transact and will have less need to hold cash balances and hence are less likely to suffer the confiscation by inflation engineered by an irresponsible central bank."]
https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2015/09/28/04/54/tr001108
Power and Policy: The New Economic World Order by Klaus Schwab and Claude Smadja
From the Magazine [Harvard Business Review] (November–December1994)
"…What we actually have been going through for the last three years is not merely a crisis but a worldwide economic revolution…."
"…The most spectacular component of the current revolution is the shift in the world economy’s center of gravity to Asia….]
One consequence of the new parity is that the West can no longer hope to dictate the rules of the game.
https://hbr.org/1994/11/power-and-policy-the-new-economic-world-order
GENEVA: The World Economic Forum has hired Charles McLean, senior MD at Hill and Knowlton Washington, as the organisation’s first director of communications and public affairs. His brief is wide-ranging since the WEF’s membership comprises multi-national corporations and NGOs. In hiring McLean, the WEF hopes to more effectively coordinate efforts by NGOs and corporations to tackle significant international problems, ranging from disease and hunger to bridging the digital divide.
August 18, 2000
https://www.prweek.com/article/103520/border-lines-mclean-tackle-wef-global-remit
For a New World Economic Order
By Thierry de Montbrial October 1975
[Foreign Affairs, the CFR's magazine)
The world economic order born after World War II, to a large extent fashioned by the United States, was based on two fundamental principles-in monetary terms, the principle of fixed parities and the dollar standard (although the dollar was convertible into gold at the request of the central banks); in commercial terms, the principle of non-discrimination and free trade. Practically speaking, the United States was assuming the role played by Britain during its period of greatness. … [paywall]