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More Davos: My dog ate the financial system

Slate's Daniel Gross reports from Davos:

By Daniel Gross

Posted Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, at 12:23 PM ET

Ordinarily, Davos is a Great Men kind of place, as the motto of this year's gathering implies: "Shaping the post-crisis world." The people who show up here—political leaders, scientists, entrepreneurs, musicians, and, above all, businesspeople—have all shown an ability to impose themselves on history. Otherwise, they wouldn't be invited. And yet in the many discussions held here about the recent global financial debacle, the question of human agency is shunted to the side.