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- From: boon@cc.uow.edu.au (Boon Chye Lee)
- Subject: Re: ** The Soros Foundation **
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.015007.16147@cc.uow.edu.au>
- Organization: University Of Wollongong
- References: <rouellet.728075681@ragueneau>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 01:50:07 GMT
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- rouellet@gel.ulaval.ca (Real Ouellet) writes:
-
- >Hello World!
-
- >Does anybody know about the Soros Foundation? This is supposedly a foundation
- >recently started by an american businessman for helping the "Russian
- >phenomenon". The latter refers to (I believe) the growing number of excellent
- >Russian scientists in or outside (defunct) Soviet Union and who don't have
- >enough money to support their work. Or something along those lines.
-
- >Also, any information about the man (Soros) would be welcome.
-
- I don't know if this is the same person you're after, but I have a series
- of articles (on the international debt problem) written by a George Soros,
- published by Morgan Stanley in 1983. The introduction, written by
- Barton Biggs, provides some information about the author:
-
- "From time to time we publish papers written outside the firm because we
- feel the view of a problem they express is fresh and enlightening...
-
- The author, George Soros, has been called "the best money manager in
- the world." His unique ability to analyze dispassionately the
- probabilities of a chain of events occurring and then make big
- bets has been his trademark for 20 years. He looks at the stock
- market as an historical process and has developed his "theory of
- reflexivity" for analyzing it.
-
- For some time now George has been intrigued with the international
- lending system... He is not an economist or an international
- banker, thus, he has no international axes to grind..."
-
-
- Boon Lee
- Economics Dept
- University of Wollongong
- NSW, Australia
-