Author

Books by George Soros

George Soros was born in Budapest in 1930 and emigrated to England after World War II, where he studied philosophy under Karl Popper at the London School of Economics. He founded the Quantum Fund in 1969 and became one of the most successful macro investors in history, most famously breaking the Bank of England in 1992 by shorting the pound. He has written several books on economics and politics, including The Crisis of Global Capitalism and The New Paradigm for Financial Markets. Through the Open Society Foundations, he has donated billions to democratic and civil society causes worldwide.