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With a blend of storytelling and analysis Sebastian Mallaby makes sense of the seeming randomness of success in venture capital. We learn about some of the most iconic triumphs and infamous disasters in the history of tech

Focusing on the evolution of a pivotal industry, this narrative provides an insider's perspective through extensive interviews with leading venture capitalists. It captures the dynamics, challenges, and triumphs within the world of investment, offering readers an engaging look at the strategies and philosophies that have shaped successful ventures. The book serves as both an informative resource and an intriguing account of the entrepreneurial spirit driving innovation and economic growth.

Wealthy, powerful and potentially dangerous, hedge fund moguls have become the 'It Boys' of 21st century capitalism. Based on unprecendented access to the industry, including 300 hours of interveiwes and binders of internal documents, 'More Money Than God' provides an authoritative history of hedge funds

An impressive achievement and an important piece of scholarship that both deserves and rewards the careful reader... A brilliant rendering of key moments in recent economic and financial history that provides the context needed to appreciate Greenspan's extraordinary mixed legacy. - Peter Fisher, International Finance Highly recommended.... anyone with an interest in postwar U.S. economic and political history will enjoy The Man Who Knew. -Ben Bernanke While Greenspan was (and is) a more capable economist than he gets credit for these days, he was an even better politician....This view of Greenspan as a political animal is central to Mallaby's account. It is also, along with the often amusing depictions of Greenspan's personal life, what makes it so much fun to read..... [An] excellent biography.- New York Times Book Review Mallaby's masterful biography-which doubles as an excellent economic history of the past three decades-tells a story of Greenspan's technocratic ascent, from his modest boyhood in New York City, to a young adulthood colored by his philosophical attraction to the antigovernment libertarianism of the novelist Ayn Rand, to his career as a high-flying economic consultant, and finally to his rise to the pinnacle of power at the Fed.- Foreign Affairs A rock-star central banker emerges in all his contradictions in Sebastian Mallaby's fine biography....Deeply researched and elegantly written .... [An] exceptional new biography - Financial Times A tour de force - the most deeply reported work on the dry art of central banking since William Greider's Secrets of the Temple (1988). But Greider's work was flawed because he pushed his reporting through a meat grinder of questionable economic theories. Mallaby avoids that pitfall. Much like the man he profiles, Mallaby shows a solid understanding of competing economic - and political - theories, without tying himself inextricably to any one.- The Washington Post The Man Who Knew is a tour de force, the story not just of Alan Greenspan's career but equally of America's economic triumphs and failures over five decades. This carefully researched and elegantly written book will be essential reading for those who aspire to make policy and for anyone who wants to divine what drives the choices that our leaders make. -The Wall Street Journal In a superb new book, the product of more than five years' research, Sebastian Mallaby helps history make up its mind about Alan Greenspan, the man hailed in 2000 by Phil Gramm, a former senator, as 'the best central banker we have ever had,' but now blamed for the financial crisis of 2007-08. -The Economist Exceptional... Deeply researched and elegantly written... As a description of the politics and pressures under which modern independent central banking has to operate, the book is incomparable. -Financial Times Mallaby pulls back the curtain on the controversial Fed chairman...and takes a fresh look at his record. -Esquire Economics is dubbed the dreary science, but as this comprehensive and absorbing biography reveals, economists can certainly enjoy lively and interesting lives.... Mallaby strives to fairly consider Greenspan's successes and failures in this balanced account....A portrait of a many-faceted and brilliant man far more appealing than the stolid technocrat who appeared before Congress and the public during his long tenure (1987-2006) as chairmanof the Federal Reserve.-Booklist Thorough, balanced, and well informed...A masterful, detailed portrait of one of the leading economic figures of our time.-Publishers Weekly The astonishing story of how a solitary young man, who found solace in numbers, became the world's most powerful economic decision-maker, presiding over the revolution in finance that touches everyone. With judgment and authority, The Man Who Knew takes us inside the great economic crises of our times-- and provides insight for the crises and turmoil

Reiche, mächtige und womöglich gefährliche Hedgefonds-Magnaten sind die Stars des Kapitalismus im 21. Jahrhundert. Ihre Wochenendpaläste sind Futter für die Fotografen von Vanity Fair, und die Möglichkeit, sie könnten ein Chaos auslösen, beschäftigte die Aufsichtsbehörden schon vor dem jüngsten Zusammenbruch der Finanzmärkte. Auf der Grundlage des einzigartigen Wissens des angesehenen Finanzautors Sebastian Mallaby über diese Branche sowie von 300 Stunden Interviews und ungezählten internen Dokumenten erzählt Mehr Geld als Gott die Geschichte der Hedgefonds von den Anfängen in den 1960er- und 1970er-Jahren über die explosiven Schlachten mit den Zentralbanken in den 1980er- und 1990er- Jahren bis zu ihrer Rolle in der Finanzkrise von 2007 bis 2009. Das erste maßgebliche Buch über die Geschichte der Hedgefonds – von den rebellischen Anfängen bis zu ihrer Rolle bei der Definition des zukünftigen Finanzwesens.

A product of more than five years of research, Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan brings into focus the mysterious point where politics and the economy meet. Through Greenspan's story, Mallaby casts every presidency from Nixon to George W. Bush in a fresh new light. The story of Greenspan is also the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill. The Man Who Knew is a searching reckoning with what exactly comprised the art, and the possible, in the career of Alan Greenspan. --

Never has the World Bank's relief work been more important than in the last nine years, when crises as huge as AIDS and the emergence of terrorist sanctuaries have threatened the prosperity of billions. This journalistic masterpiece by Washington Post columnist Sebastian Mallaby charts those controversial years at the Bank under the leadership of James Wolfensohn—the unstoppable power broker whose daring efforts to enlarge the planet's wealth in an age of globalization and terror were matched only by the force of his polarizing personality. Based on unprecedented access to its subject, this captivating tour through the messy reality of global development is that rare triumph—an emblematic story through which a gifted author has channeled the spirit of the age.This edition features a new afterword by the author that analyzes the appointment of Paul Wolfowitz as Wolfensohn's successor at the World bank