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George Soros

Founder, Soros Fund Management and the Quantum Fund; founder, Open Society Foundations

The Alchemy of Finance introduced reflexivity, a primary-source framework macro traders and academics still build on.

14 books of their own · 4 biographies about them · 19 articles

Books they wrote 14

· 1987 · Introduces reflexivity; includes the 1985-86 real-time experiment.
· 1995 · Open Library lists the short title "Soros on Soros".
· 2000 · Open Library lists the short title "Open society".
· 2019 · Published in the UK as In Defence of Open Society.

Biographies about them 4

One serious biography; his own books and interviews carry more of the record than any outsider's.

Michael T. Kaufman · 2002 · Written with Soros's cooperation; strongest on Hungary and philanthropy.
Sebastian Mallaby · 2010 · The sterling trade reconstructed inside a hedge-fund history.
Robert Slater · 1996 · Journalistic and secondary; Soros declined to participate.
Chuck Sudetic · 2011 · Authorised account of the Open Society foundations, his second career.

Articles and essays 12

Blog posts 7

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George Soros - Essays

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