William Davies

What was a Buddhist monk doing at the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos lecturing the world's leaders on mindfulness? Find out....

The dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic represented an exceptional interruption in the routines of work, financial markets, movement across borders, and education. The policies introduced in response were said to be unprecedented—but the distribution of risks and rewards was anything but....

In this bold and far-reaching exploration of our new political landscape, William Davies reveals how feelings have come to reshape our world....

In this sweeping and provocative work, political economist William Davies draws on a 400-year history of ideas to argue that global trends decades and even centuries in the making have reduced a world of logic and fact into one driven by emotions - particularly fear and anxiety....