A safari with Davos Man

With frequent references to private jets, yachts and oceanfront mansions, Mr Goodman's book runs the risk of descending into a lefty screed.

Capitalism has been facing a bad rap, and not all of it has to do with Russian oligarchs or Vladimir Putin’s kleptocrat model of state capitalism. Davos Man is a scathing look at capitalism in its heartland, the US, as typified by several of its prominent beneficiaries.

Peter S Goodman, Global Economics Correspondent of the New York Times, tracks “five key specimens” to highlight a familiar argument: That US billionaires have suborned economic and political policy-making to enrich themselves at the expense of ordinary people. The chosen five are all male and white: Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Jamie Dimon of JP