The history of modern economic planning doubles as a resort travelogue. In 1947, the forefathers of neoliberalism launched their world-conquering project at the Hôtel Du Parc on Mont Pèlerin in the Swiss Alps. Global economic consensus has remained synonymous with jet-setting hospitality in the decades since. From Davos to Doha, today’s brave new market masters huddle in five-star retreats to dream up ways of pulling the levers of global growth. It makes a certain rough idolatrous sense, then, that the effort to shatter the altar of economic growth should bring me to an Art Deco hotel on the French Mediterranean built …read more
Source:: The New Republic
