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  <title><![CDATA[Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism]]></title>
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  <default_description>The renowned financier reconsiders the state of the world economy, and the arguments he made in his &lt;I&gt;New York Times&lt;/I&gt; and &lt;I&gt;Wall Street Journal&lt;/I&gt; bestseller &lt;I&gt;The Crisis of Global Capitalism&lt;/I&gt;.  &lt;P&gt;Lauded by the &lt;I&gt;New York Times&lt;/I&gt; as &quot;brilliant and persuasive,&quot; and published in more than thirty-five foreign editions, George Soros's &lt;I&gt;The Crisis of Global Capitalism&lt;/I&gt; became an instant classic.  A must read for anyone concerned with the complex market forces that rule our global economy and that have thrust us into a state of financial flux and international economic insecurity.  Now Soros takes a whole new look at the arguments he made in that book, incorporating the very latest in global economic and political developments.  He shows how the recovery following the economic meltdown of 1998 may have been a false dawn, leaving us in a much more precarious position than we realize. He also explores surprising connections between events like the war in Kosovo and the economic wealth of nations.  And he offers new insights into the fates of Russia, Asia, Europe and the United States.  Demonstrating that our still unquestioning faith in market forces blinds us to crucial economic instabilities, Open Society provides an inspiring vision of how to fix the flaws in the system - suggestions that have already influenced leaders at the IMF, the World Bank, and in many national governments.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nice social philosophy from soros]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty good ideas, advanced on a platform rigorous enough to require more economic awareness than I bring to the table to assess, but not rigorous enough to make me think it'd be worthwhile. Pretty much exactly the thing I'd write if I were a billionaire Hungarian financier aiming to become a billio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9968482">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Soros has some decent ideas, and thankfully tempers them with a real humanitarianism.  Let the economy serve the people.   ]]></body>
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