George Soros is een Hongaars-Amerikaanse financier en zakenman, bekend om zijn filantropie en focus op het ondersteunen van liberale idealen. Hij verwierf bekendheid als "de man die de Bank of England brak" na een winst van naar verluidt 1 miljard dollar tijdens de Britse valutacrisis van 1992, door correct te speculeren op een devaluatie van de pond sterling. Als een van de meest succesvolle financiers uit de geschiedenis worden zijn inzichten op het gebied van investeringen en economische kwesties breed gevolgd.
In this collection of five lectures, George Soros shares his insights on finance, capitalism, and the concept of an open society, reflecting on his extensive experience and the principles that guided him in founding the Central European University in Budapest.
In the midst of the most serious financial upheaval since the Great Depression, legendary financier George Soros explores the origins of the crisis and its implications for the future. In a concise essay that combines practical insight with philosophical depth, Soros makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the great credit crisis and its implications for our nation and the world.
Reforming Global Capitalism: A substantial revaluation of his international bestseller by a legendary financier and philanthropist. schovat popis
George Soros Ends the Speculation "The outcome [of this book] is a summing up of my life's work... As I finish the book, I feel I have succeeded.
George Soros---universally known for his philanthropy, progressive politics and investment success, and now under sustained attack from the far right, nationalists, and anti-Semites around the world---gives us an impassioned and much-needed defense of his core belief in open society.
The European Union could soon be a thing of the past. Spurred by anti-EU sentiments due to the euro crisis, national interests conflict with a shared vision for the future of Europe. Is it too late to preserve the union that generated unprecedented peace for more than half a century? This is no mere academic question. In the past decade, the EU has declined from a unified global power to a fractious confederation of states with staggering unemployment, resentfully seeking relief from a reluctant Germany. If the EU collapses and the former member states are transformed again from partners into rivals, the US and the world will confront the serious economic and political consequences. In a series of revealing interviews conducted by Dr. Gregor Peter Schmitz, George Soros offers trenchant commentary and concise, prescriptive advice: The euro crisis was not an inevitable consequence of integration, but a result of avoidable mistakes; and excessive faith in the self-regulating financial markets that Soros calls market fundamentalism inspired flawed institutional structures that call out for reform. Despite the considerable perils of this period, George Soros maintains his faith in the European Union as a model of open society.--From publisher description.
Soros dissects the current crisis and economic theory in general, revealing how theoretical assumptions have combined with human behavior to lead to today's mess. He shows how unquestioning faith in market forces blinds kus to cruc instablilities have chain-reacted to cause the current crisis - a crisis that has the potential to get much, much worse
George Soros's The Crisis of Global Capitalism became an international bestseller and an instant classic; a must read for anyone concerned with the complex market forces that rule our global economy and create both prosperity and instability. Now, in Open Society , Soros takes a new and provocative look at the arguments he made in that book, incorporating the latest global economic and political developments into his analysis. He shows how our economic and political arrangements are out of sync. Recognizing that our existing institutions are under the sway of sovereign states, he proposes an "open society alliance" with the dual purpose of fostering open societies in individual countries and laying the groundwork for a global open society. In leading up to his inspiring vision, Soros presents an iconoclastic view of the world that has guided him both in making money and spending it on his network of Open Society Foundations. This book sums up the life's work of an exceptional individual. George Soros is the best fund manager in history, a stateless statesman, and an original thinker.
George Soros is both a participant in and an observer of the revolution whichcontinues to sweep through the former Soviet empire. In this book he tells thestory of his involvement, which has grown in line with events.He presents a theoretical framework which recognizes that participants in historyact on the basis of imperfect understanding. He connects the traditional mode of thinking with organic society, the critical mode with open society, and thedogmatic with closed society.
