Either way, the one thing that almost every chief executive agreed on in the Davos debates is that the toxic combination of populism, protectionism and nationalism that is haunting countries from Brazil to the UK is unlikely to disappear soon —
“People [in Davos] are realising that we have to start operating for the social good or we risk being kicked out — we have all this nationalism and populism and we know that if the economy is gloomy this could get worse.”