The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered
by George Soros
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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.Tags
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George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1930. He moved to London to attend the London School of Economics. After moving to the United States, Soros began a successful international investment fund. He opened his first foundation, The Open Society Fund in 1979. He also created The Eastern European Foundation is Hungary and the Soros show more Foundation - Soviet Union in 1987. With his great success, Soros funded a network of foundations in more than thirty countries. Soros has also published many book including The Alchemy of Finance, Opening the Soviet Union, Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve, and The Crisis of Global Capitalism. He has also received honorary degrees from the New School of Social Research, Oxford University, the Budapest University of Economics, and Yale University. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- La crise du capitalisme mondial. L'intégrisme des marchés
- Original title
- The crisis of global capitalism
- Original publication date
- 1998 (1e édition originale anglaise, Little Brown and Company, Londres) (1e édition originale anglaise, Little Brown and Company, Londres); 1998-12-04 (1e traduction et édition française ∙ Plon) (1e traduction et édition française ∙ Plon)
- Original language*
- Anglais (Royaume-Uni) (Royaume-Uni)
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- Economics, Nonfiction, Business, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 332.042 — Society, government, & culture Economics Banking & Money Special Topics Global Finance
- LCC
- HB3722 .S67 — Social sciences Economic theory. Demography Economic theory. Demography Business cycles. Economic fluctuations
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