The Crisis Of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered by George Soros

The Crisis Of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered Reviews

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  The Crisis of Global Capitalism warns that global stability is threatened by the emergence of market fundamentalism - the belief that the common interest is best served by individual decision-making, and that any attempt to maintain the common interest through government intervention distorts the market mechanism. 'It is market fundamentalism,' Soros insists, 'that has rendered the global capitalist system unsound and unsustainable.'
  
  Soros belives that the development of a global economy has not been matched by the development of a global society. International law and international institutions, insofar as they exist, are not strong enough to prevent war or the large-scale abuse of human rights in individual countires. Ecological threats are not adequately dealt with. And global financial markets, which are inherently unstable and do not care about social and environmetal needs, are largely behond the control of national or international authorities.
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  TarasProkopyuk

  В книге "Кризис мирового капитализма: открытое сообщество в опасности" Джорджем Соросом рассмотрены проблемы капитализма в современном мире и выложены мысли как избавится от них, что является их основной проблемой и как построить работающее "открытое общество" о идеи которого он весьма заботится.
  
  Сорос довольно весомая личность не только как инвестор и финансист с мировым именем, а и как политик вне политики и филантроп. Хотя за пределами данной книги его личность часто высвечивается сугубо как циничного спекулянта и также часто в неблагоприятном для него свете.
  
  Книга весьма интересная, хотя и будет несколько сложная для тех у кого нет финансового или экономического образования, поскольку часто изобилует множественной терминологией, особенно финансовой.
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  Peng Gao

  Useful to read in the washroom
  
  Good easy reading that tells a historic perspective
  
  Has a few ideas but overly exploited to paper thin
  
  The lack of evidence means one must not take it as a product of serious thoughts, only the remnants or skeleton of some such
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  Camilo Zuluaga Borda

  Este libro hace ciertas criticas a la falta de gestión en los mercados financieros por parte de las instituciones públicas. Deja claro que el mercado no es eficiente y requiere regulaciones para evitar las burbujas.
  
  Me pareció de lectura muy técnica y algo pretenciosa, ya que hace varias críticas a la forma en que se han abordado ciertas problemáticas, sin embargo las propuestas que el autor hace solo han sido contrastadas en su laboratorio financiero e ignora la parte política, que es la que finalmente impera en los mercados.
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  Karl

  This book was one of my first routes into my introduction into the world of economics. Having studied Japanese, was inadvertently found financial politics coming into focus. I have ever since, grown interest in these subject.
  
  George Soros is a very interesting individual, and a man with vast, perhaps unmatched experience.
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  Bob Kennedy

  A globalist and a marxist approaching a subject me knows nothing about.
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  Rakesh Awasthi

  Showing the mirror, straight from the Insider.
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  Marco den Ouden

  This is an excellent introduction to George Soros' philosophy and ideals. I'll be writing a detailed analysis on my blog over the next month and will add links here as they are written.
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  Lucía Vijil Saybe

  Un multimillonario magnate que sentó las bases en sus empresas para poder "analizar" el sistema donde las creó. Reconoce las fallas en el capitalismo, pero no lo destruye, que ahí mismo planteó la manera de salvar al capitalismo de su crisis global. Puntos importantes, reconocer la flexibilidad y la falibilidad en un sistema de mercado libre que no es perfecto. Preocupado por la cuestión de los valores, donde afirma que la escuela clásica de Smith se ha involucrado en asuntos que no le competen el mercado (sistemas de organización, colectividades hasta sentimientos). Además, dice que una economía de libre mercado es cualquier cosa menos una comunidad, por lo que descarta la idea de la comunidad internacional por las diferencias políticas que no consolida el capitalismo. La crisis del capitalismo es causada por patologías inherentes al sistemas finaciero internacional y una vez más, se ridiculiza a los defensores del mercado buscando "equilibrio" que dice, NO EXISTE.
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  Monzenn

  Solid four stars. I share many of the sentiments of the author, from building a foundation that rests on reflexivity (mirrored in other fields like behavioral economics) to the unique role of inter-governmental agencies, formal or no. Thus, for the most part, I got what his narrative was. The one star dock is really a combination of factors that generally fall under "enjoyment": the first half was too abstract to be interesting at points (Bullshit Jobs did the sensational plus philosophical thing better), there was a weird tangent towards death and love near the end (understand it's his advocacy but still), and the ending was a bit underdeveloped. Still a book I'd be okay to recommend to others, and I'm excited to read Alchemy of Finance whenever I get a copy.
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  Rudyard L.

  Got about 2/3 through, Soros predicted the reasoning behind the 2008 financial crisis quite well. His critique of modern financial capitalism is quite good. However, this book as a total is an incoherent Panegyric and is a vehicle for self praise. The book has little central theme and winds around incoherently. He uses every opportunity to brag about his various philanthropies and the 1998 financial crisis, which he paints as a great turning point in history but was in fact a minor event where he just made a lot of money. I feel like this book is a combination of selling to George Soros fanboys who will buy anything he writes and an opportunity for him to brag.
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  Ice Bear

  Do we ever learn, no ! Written in 1997, probably not much altered in 2008.
  
  An interesting theory almost to the point of saying complexity makes all theories redundant.
  
  I understood the practical application rather than the theorising.
  
  The concept of Open society is interesting but still too me seems to market driven, prefer the socialist european models. But the point is that all models can be corrupted.
  
  
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  Nat

  Soros should continue to be a fund manager and stop writing.
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  Matt

  In conservative circles, George Soros is a candidate for the anti-Christ. I'm reading this book to form my own opinion of his ideas.
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  Martin Lopo

  Lo trajo a colacion, la funcion "importar"... ahi qeuda, de la epoca anterior casi a facebook.. jaja , fragmentos de algo qeu no se podra completar... la biblioteca..