High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg
by Ferguson, Niall
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Like New/Like New
- ISBN 10
- 159420246X
- ISBN 13
- 9781594202469
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Synopsis
"Prodigiously researched but also splendidly written-clear and vivid and precise." -- The Wall Street Journal Drawing on more than ten thousand hitherto unavailable letters and diary entries, bestselling author Niall Ferguson tells the story of Siegmund Warburg, a complex man who was as much a psychologist, a politician, and an actor-manager as a banker. An obsessive perfectionist with an aversion to excessive risk, Warburg-and the S. G. Warburg firm-adopted a financial philosophy that was the antithesis of the debt-fueled, algorithm-driven banking of our time. In High Financier, Niall Ferguson recaptures the meticulous business methods and strict ethical code that set Warburg apart from the mere speculators and traders who inhabit today's financial world.
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- Bookseller
- Southampton Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 153828
- Title
- High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg
- Author
- Ferguson, Niall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 159420246X
- ISBN 13
- 9781594202469
- Publisher
- Penguin Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2010
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