“Davos has become the emblem of a global elite that has lost its ability to listen.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Brecht once said: ‘All power comes from the people. But where does it go?” — Edward Luce Brecht Copy Share Image
“We cannot simultaneously pursue democracy, national determination and economic globalisation.” — Edward Luce Democracy Copy Share Image
“History tells us that inequality soars when societies develop.” — Edward Luce History Copy Share Image
“The West’s global cities are like tropical islands surrounded by oceans of resentment.” — Edward Luce Resentment Copy Share Image
“It is the elites who are loosening their allegiances and workers who are reaching for national flags.” — Edward Luce Elites Copy Share Image
“The meritocratic society has given way to a hereditary meritocracy.” — Edward Luce Meritocracy Copy Share Image
“In the US, the more liberal a city’s politics, the higher the rate of inequality.45” — Edward Luce Inequality Copy Share Image
“GDP numbers insist we are doing well, at a time when half the country is suffering from personal recessions. The world’s most… — Edward Luce Time Copy Share Image
“If the democratically backed will of the world’s largest trading bloc can be undone by a group of unelected trade judges, imagine… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“In 1970 only about one in seven American families lived in neighbourhoods that were unambiguously ‘affluent’ or ‘poor’.40 By 2007 that number… — Edward Luce Family Copy Share Image
“People tend to form political beliefs in their early years and then stick with them for life. If today’s rich young are… — Edward Luce Democracy Copy Share Image
“According to one Harvard study, more students attended America’s elite universities from the top 1 per cent of income backgrounds than from… — Edward Luce Education Copy Share Image
“The new economy requires consumers with spending power – just as the old one did. Yet much like the farmer who eats… — Edward Luce Economics Copy Share Image
“In 2000, exactly a third of Americans described themselves as lower class, according to Gallup. By 2015 that number had risen to almost half.35” — Edward Luce Lower class Copy Share Image
“the basic responsibility of government is to maximize the welfare of its citizens, not to pursue some abstract concept of the global… — Edward Luce Politics Copy Share Image
“For those who still believe our age’s disruptions match what happened after 1870, ask yourself which you would first give up, your… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“the Toil Index – the number of working hours it takes a median worker to pay the median rent in one of… — Edward Luce Rent Copy Share Image
“By any numerical measure, humanity is becoming rapidly less poor. But between half and two-thirds of people in the West have been… — Edward Luce Artificial intelligence Copy Share Image
“The emergence of China is the most dramatic event in economic history. We are living in an age of convergence no less… — Edward Luce Economic history Copy Share Image
“Orwell’s fear was that Big Brother would always be watching you. Huxley’s dread was that we would be too busy watching Big… — Edward Luce Big brother Copy Share Image
“In 2011, Boris Johnson, then London’s mayor, saw the downside when the capital’s fringes went on the rampage for several days, smashing… — Edward Luce Europe Copy Share Image
“Just as the West’s support for the Afghan jihad against the Soviets in the 1980s laid the ground for the rise of… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“The stability of the planet – and the presumption of restraint – will have to rest in the hands of Xi Jinping… — Edward Luce Powerful leaders Copy Share Image
“Today’s equivalent is probably ‘get an engineering degree’, but it will not necessarily be as lucrative. A third of Americans who graduated… — Edward Luce Artificial intelligence Copy Share Image
“Can the West regain its optimism? If the answer is no – and most of the portents are skewing the wrong way… — Edward Luce Golden age Copy Share Image
“Shortly afterwards Addis Ababa launched a crackdown on its opponents that resulted in hundreds of deaths. If America’s president was in two… — Edward Luce Death Copy Share Image
“areas that were once the preserve of national sovereignty are now ring-fenced by international law and global regulation. The instinct in Davos… — Edward Luce Free trade Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump consciously stokes racist sentiment, and has given a rocket boost to the ‘alt-right’ fringe of neo-Nazis and white nationalists. But… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Such risk aversion breeds its own failure. So deeply rooted is gentrification that Richard Florida has now modified his widely acclaimed thesis… — Edward Luce Big city Copy Share Image
“Europe and America’s populist right wants to turn the clock back to the days when men were men and the West ruled.… — Edward Luce Populist Copy Share Image
“Today, Chicago, like London, sucks in the best talent from its interior in the Midwest, where the swing to Trump was strongest.… — Edward Luce Chicago Copy Share Image
“For all the emphasis we place on our multicultural cities, they epitomise our oligarchic reality.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“The downward pressure on the incomes of the West’s middle classes in the coming years will be relentless.” — Edward Luce Inequality Copy Share Image
“if you want an economic chart that stops you from sleeping you should start with the elephant.” — Edward Luce Economics Copy Share Image
“The world’s elites have helped to provoke what they feared: a populist uprising against the world economy.” — Edward Luce Economics Copy Share Image
“Chicago’s success is no longer symbiotic with its rural neighbours. It comes at their expense.” — Edward Luce Chicago Copy Share Image
