Description: Discreet PowerHow the World Economic Forum Shapes Market Agendas Author(s): Christina Garsten, Adrienne S?rbom Format: Hardback Publisher: Stanford University Press, United States Imprint: Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 9780804794145, 978-0804794145 Synopsis In Discreet Power, Christina Garsten and Adrienne S?rbom undertake an ethnographic study of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Accessing one of the primary agenda-setting organizations of our day, they draw on interviews and participant observation to examine how the WEF wields its influence. They situate the WEF within an emerging system of "discretionary governance," in which actors craft ideas and entice formal authorities and top leaders in order to garner significant sway. Yet in spite of its image as a powerful, exclusive brain trust, the WEF has no formal mandate to implement its positions. It must convince others to advance chosen causes and enact suggestions, rendering its position quite fragile. Garsten and S?rbom argue that the WEF must be viewed relationally as a brokering organization that lives between the market and political spheres and that extends its reach through associated individuals and [url] place the WEF in the context of a broader shift, arguing that while this type of governance opens up novel ways of dealing with urgent global problems, it challenges core democratic values.
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Book Title: Discreet Power
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Name: Discreet Power: How the World Economic Forum Shapes Market Agendas
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: Economics, Government, Sociology
Publication Year: 2018
Type: Textbook
Author: Adrienne Soerbom, Christina Garsten
Item Width: 152 mm
Series: Emerging Frontiers in the Global Economy
Format: Hardcover
