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Buying a better world : George Soros and billionaire philanthropy / Anna Porter.
- Title
- Buying a better world : George Soros and billionaire philanthropy / Anna Porter.
- Author
- Porter, Anna
- Publication
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada : TAP Books Ltd., 2015.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HG172.S63 P67 2015 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 224 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- A biography of speculator and philanthropist George Soros, focusing on the last decade and the work done by his Open Society Foundations.
- Alternative Title
- George Soros and billionaire philanthropy
- Billionaire philanthropy
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The man and his ideas. The messiah of Wall Street -- The difficulty of being Jewish -- The ideas that fuel the man and his foundations -- The Open Society Foundations. Mr. Human Rights -- The hub in New York -- The legalist -- In Eastern Europe. The Hungarian experiment -- Eastern promises -- The failure in Russia -- Meddling in the Balkans -- The struggles of the Roma -- Spreading across the world. African expeditions -- Myanmar: another test for democracy -- Tackling America -- Soros and global issues. And justice for all -- The politics of public health -- The challenges of climate change -- Ending the war on drugs -- The battle for the soul of Europe.
- ISBN
- 9781459731035 (pbk.)
- 1459731034 (pbk.)
- 9781459731042 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)
- 1459731042 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)
- 9781459731059 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
- 1459731050 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2014495649
- OCLC
- 897352524
- SCSB-10608228
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library