The Moral Revolution and the Well-Being Economy: Reimagining Capital, Power, and Progress

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​If today’s crises are moral failures, not technical ones, what responsibility do those who hold capital and power bear for changing the system they benefit from?

​The world has entered a moral reckoning. Climate breakdown, widening inequality, and collapsing trust expose a hard truth: the prevailing economic model has optimized for growth while hollowing out human dignity and planetary stability. Technical fixes, incremental reforms, and smarter capital allocation are no longer sufficient. What is failing is not a lack of innovation, but a deficit of moral imagination an unwillingness to confront how power, capital, and progress are defined in the first place. At Davos 2026, this session brings together two of the most influential voices reshaping global thinking on leadership and value creation for a rare, high-level dialogue on what must change. Drawing from lived experience across emerging markets and deep Eastern wisdom traditions, they challenge the audience to rethink capitalism not as a machine to be optimized, but as a moral system shaped by human choices, values, and consciousness.

Hosted at the TPC House, this fireside conversation moves Davos beyond performance and positioning toward reflection and responsibility. It asks a question the global elite rarely pauses to face: if today’s crises are moral in nature, what kind of leaders and inner transformations are required to build a truly well-being economy?