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Adam Tooze
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Ones & Tooze: The Economic Philosophy of George Soros
Billionaire George Soros has been funding democracy promotion around the world for decades, through his Open Society Foundation. For his efforts, he’s become a bogeyman for the far right. But what economic philosophies drive Soros’s charity work? And how do they align with the business strategies that made him so fabulously wealthy? Adam and Cameron dig in.
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“As billionaire investor Warren Buffett famously put it: “Actually, there’s been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won.”
― Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
― Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
“life expectancy among working-class white Americans had been decreasing since the early 2000s. In modern history the only obvious parallel was with Russia in the desperate aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union. One journalistic essay and academic research paper after another confirmed the disaster, until the narrative was capped in 2015 by Anne Case and Angus Deaton’s famous account of “deaths of despair.”
― Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
― Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
“Ill-timed German aggression had tipped Wilson onto their side. But if the Russian revolution had started a few months earlier, if Germany had postponed its decision to resume unrestricted U-boat warfare until the spring, or if Wilson had been able to stay out of the war until May, what might have been the result? Could the war have continued? Might democracy in Russia have been saved? As the departing German ambassador to Washington Count Bernstorff noted in agonized retrospect: If Germany over the winter of 1916–17 had ‘accepted Wilson’s mediation, the whole of American influence in Russia would have been exercised in favour of peace, and not, as events ultimately proved, against’ Germany. ‘Out of Wilson’s and Kerensky’s Peace programme’, Germany could surely have rescued a peace”
― The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
― The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| THE WORLD WAR TWO...: Recommended or Further Reading from "Inferno/All Hell Let Loose" | 12 | 106 | Oct 17, 2012 02:41AM | |
| THE WORLD WAR TWO...: 2015 - October - Theme Read - Aspects of the Third Reich | 93 | 59 | Dec 19, 2017 11:50PM | |
| 21st Century Lite...: What 21st Century Nonfiction Stands Above the Rest? (12/2/18) | 30 | 94 | Dec 08, 2018 02:53PM | |
| Book Riot's Read ...: 2018 Read Harder Challenge plans | 294 | 2379 | Dec 24, 2018 06:28AM | |
| Deep State Radio ...: Knowledge Base | 4 | 60 | Feb 19, 2019 06:23AM | |
| Club de lecture S...: Jan-Feb 2020: Economy nominations | 8 | 5 | Dec 18, 2019 01:08PM | |
| Club de lecture S...: Jan-Feb 2020 | Crashed: How a decade of financial crises changed the world, by Adam Tooze | 6 | 5 | Feb 08, 2020 01:58PM | |
| THE WORLD WAR TWO...: Personalities of the Second World War | 426 | 308 | Aug 24, 2022 10:00PM | |
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