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Davos is the place. The VIPs and the not very VIPS are all there, saying this or that. But knowing the history of Davos since 1971, we know that by and large, not much good has come out of these elaborate and very expensive meetings. Nothing, but a lot of hot air, you might say.

Now let us, as Larry Elliott writing in the Guardian has done, construct a possible rewarding and useful panel at Davos.

What if Karl Marx and Keynes, Friedman and Schumacher were at the 43rd World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on a panel and charied by the IMF's Christine Lagarde, addressing the global current crises?

Let us see how this panel may have proceeded.

The greatest debate of them all: Imaging a dialogue between Marx, Keynes, Friedman and Schumacher on current global crises

Davos is the place. The VIPs and the not very VIPS are all there, saying this or that. But knowing the history of Davos since 1971, we know that by and large, not much good has come out of these elaborate and very expensive meetings. Nothing, but a lot of hot air, you might say.