The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, reliably attracts major media attention.(While We're At It)
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, May, 2005 by Neuhaus, Richard
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, reliably attracts major media attention. It is a gathering of some two thousand presidents, prime ministers, treasury secretaries, and corporate CEOs and chairmen, with a small smattering of folks who are to address "values questions" in order to create moral uneasiness about Corporate Social Responsibility, commonly referred to as "CSR." I was invited a few years ago and was duly impressed by the global display of egos and power on display.
I have declined subsequent invitations, but it was almost worth going that one time for the panel discussion in which I questioned Nobel laureate James Watson on moral questions related to the Human Genome Project. He answered that I should not worry since...
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