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Soros: The Life, Ideas, and Impact of the World's Most Influential Investor

2010-02-08 
基本信息·出版社:McGraw-Hill Professional ·页码:336 页 ·出版日期:2008年12月 ·ISBN:0071608443 ·条形码:9780071608442 ·装帧:精装 ·外文 ...
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 Soros: The Life, Ideas, and Impact of the World's Most Influential Investor


基本信息·出版社:McGraw-Hill Professional
·页码:336 页
·出版日期:2008年12月
·ISBN:0071608443
·条形码:9780071608442
·装帧:精装
·外文书名:索罗斯传:世界上最伟大的投资家的生活、时代和交易

内容简介

《索罗斯传》是罗伯特·斯莱特1996年版索罗斯传记的全面升级。其中增加了许多新内容,包括对索罗斯及其亲密伙伴的独家专访,深入挖掘在未来不稳定的、 变幻无常的信贷市场中的投资战略。书中描述了索罗斯的思想对2004年美国大选的作用,他在2006年《纽约时报》上对驻伊拉克美军最高指挥官裴卓斯中将 的抨击,以及他对慈善和政治活动的宏大计划。
作为世界上最成功的投资家,同时也是自由政治活动的代表人物,乔治·索罗斯是我们这个时代最吸引人、最具极端性的人物。他最初的声誉来自他非凡的投资才能,而最近十几年,索罗斯开始关注国际政治领域。

"A penniless survivor of the Nazi occupation of Hungary, George Soros is now one of the richest men in the world, and Robert Slater does an excellent job of helping us understand how Soros did it. . . . Slater distinguishes Soros from other great investors by explaining his mental processes . . . . He explains how Soros views markets as chaotic, not efficient, and very prone to boom-bust sequences. . . . Slater has written a fascinating volume."--Barron's. .

The highly acclaimed bestseller updated to reveal Soros' role in our new economic and political era

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As a financial genius, global philanthropist, political activist, man of conscience, and the world's only investor with his own foreign policy--it cannot be denied that Soros is an enigmatic man of enormous influence. For more than four decades he has been so successful that he has been accused of directing the course of global markets and shaping the destinies of nations.

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Now, in this exhaustively updated and expanded edition of his 1996 bestseller, biographer Robert Slater separates fact from fiction to get at the truth about the mysterious figure of George Soros. Working from extensive interviews with Soros and those closest to him, Slater combines compelling biographical detail with scrupulous analysis to:

. . Detail how Soros made his billions as a global currency trader and stock operator . Chronicle his role in bringing down communism and establishing open societies to Eastern Europe and the former USSR . Demystify Soros's macroeconomic approach to investing and his oft-misunderstood theory of reflexivity. Explore his fanatical obsession with unseating George W. Bush in 2004 and his growing involvement with left-wing political activist groups. Reveal George Soros's strategies for surviving and thriving in the chaos of today's credit markets . . --------. .

He's been hailed as the ?World's Greatest Investor? and ?King of the Hedge Funds.? In the 1980s he worked tirelessly and spent lavishly to help bring down communism in Eastern Europe and establish open societies where none existed. Yet he now asserts that his life's mission is to defend democracy against capitalism and ?excessive individualism?. An avowed liberal, he's vilified on the right and admired by many on the left.

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George Soros has been making headlines for more than four decades, yet he remains as much an enigma as ever--especially to those who would divine the secrets behind his phenomenal success as a global investor. Now, in this thoroughly updated, substantially expanded edition of his 1996 bestseller Soros, biographer Robert Slater goes beyond the headlines and the oft-told tales to reveal the man behind the legend.

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Working from extensive interviews with Soros himself, as well as Soros's business associates and friends, Slater traces his subject's life across two continents and more than seven decades. We see Soros as a Hungarian boy whose favorite game was Monopoly; a Jewish teenager on the run from the Gestapo; an ?migr? in England who waited tables and served as a lifeguard tp survive; a burgeoning intellectual at the London School of Economics with a flair for analytical philosoph; and as a new arrival to his adoptive homeland, the USA.

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Slater also closely tracks Soros's meteoric rise from unsuccessful gold arbitrageur to ?The Man Who Moves Markets.? He chronicles many of Soros's financial triumphs and missteps, digging deep to provide new insights into some of his most sensational coups, including Soros's history-making move against the Pound-a play that netted him a cool $1 billion and seemingly threatened to break The Bank of England.

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And in entirely new chapters devoted to Soros's political awakening, Slater describes his growing involvement with national politics during the 1990s, his role in helping to launch the liberal political action group, Americans Coming Together, his mounting obsession with George W. Bush following 9/11 and his efforts to unseat him in the 2004 election, and his widely misunderstood involvement with Moveon.org.

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作者简介

Robert Slater is the bestselling author of 30 books, including Jack Welch and the GE Way, Saving Big Blue, The Eye of the Storm, and Microsoft Rebooted.


文摘 第一部分 救世主的成长第1章 改变大富翁游戏的规则如果一个孩子声称自己像上帝,你会怎么想?年轻的索罗斯成长在20世纪30年代布达佩斯富有的中产阶级家庭,他看起来是个非常正常的 孩子,拥有很多朋友,热爱运动,行为举止和同龄孩子别无二致,可如果他声称自己像神灵,又该作何解释呢?现在我们只能引用成年后索罗斯的话了。成年后,在 索罗斯看来,如果任何人将他在童年时的话当真,认为他确实觉得自己像神灵,那是十分荒谬的。但同时,我们又在疑惑,为什么索罗斯就没有资格这么想呢?成年 的索罗斯没有给出任何迹象或者公开否认他不再坚持这些狂妄的信念了,他只是暗示:一个人要想相信自己像神灵,是多么困难的一件事。他在自己的一本书中这样 写道:“说实话,我从小就有很强烈的救世主的幻想,我知道自己要控制这样的想法,否则会惹祸上身。”1987年,索罗斯在他的著作《金融炼金 术》(AlchemyofFinance)中用这样的一段话,来解释他的这些幻想。他表露心声,作为一个年轻人,拥有这些信念是多么痛苦,对他来说,这个 秘密十分沉重,他不愿意与人分享。“当我承认我心里一直有过分夸大自我重要性的想法。相信人们不会感到惊讶。坦率地说,我曾经幻想自己是某种神灵,或者是 像凯恩斯那样的经济改革家,甚至是像爱因斯坦那样的科学家。”他继续写道,强烈的现实感让他意识到这些想法很不正常,有种负罪感,他只好将它们小心地藏起 来,不让别人知道。“这也造成我长大詹.在很多时候生活得并不愉快。”最终,他自己承认了这些想法,至少自己能坦诚面对这些想法,这让他感到快乐了许多。 在年轻的时候,索罗斯曾认为自己如同神灵,所以在21世纪初,当有人称他为魔鬼的时候,就显得很有讽刺意味。在这些人看来,索罗斯为极左的政治事业提供援 助,试图以此来破坏美国传统的价值观。索罗斯是否真的认为,成年后他在金融和慈善领域的领袖地位与自己孩提时代的幻想类似?很多年后,索罗斯努力纠正人们 的想法,他的“救世主的幻想”并不等于他认为自己像神。他坚持“救世主的幻想”,其真正意义在于,他感到有责任为别人提供人道主义援助。索罗斯长大后,很 少会再谈论这一想法,他未曾公开解释为什么要将自己看做神灵。如果你再逼问他,他可能会说,那只是个玩笑,他根本就不相信自己像神。甚至,他到处拿自己童 年的感受去开玩笑。有个记者曾建议,索罗斯应该被任命为罗马教皇。索罗斯反问道:
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