[Marxism] Davos-ites admit to intellectual bankruptcy

[Pat Costello]

http://davos.blogs.time.com/2009/01/31/the-good-news-is-that-nobody-thinks-they-know-anything-anymore/



Davos 2009 - World Economic Forum - TIME.com
Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 11:17 am
The good news is that nobody thinks they know anything anymore
  It may be the first well-informed panel I've ever moderated, in the sense that you all know you don't know anything.

The FT's Martin Wolf, midway through a discussion with Montek Ahluwalia, deputy chairman of the Indian Planning Commission; Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of Canada; Christine LaGarde, finance minister of France; John Lipsky, chief economist of the IMF; and Peter Sands, group chief exceutive of Standard Chartered Bank.


And that this may be the last Davos:

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1876422_1876426_1876421,00.html


but they had a jolly time in spite of it all by pretending to be refugees

http://blogs.nyu.edu/fas/dri/aidwatch/2009/01/and_now_for_something_complete.html


followed by a fabulous catered lunch.