Discreet Power: How the World Economic Forum Shapes Market Agendas

by Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150360604X
• ISBN13: 9781503606043
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"