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Based on biography of the head of the family of centuries-old German-British Warburg banking dynasty by social economist Jacques Attali. Siegmund (S G) Warburg, who fled Nazi Germany for Lon... Read allBased on biography of the head of the family of centuries-old German-British Warburg banking dynasty bygd social economist Jacques Attali. Siegmund (S G) Warburg, who fled Nazi Germany for London in 1933, became a wartime financier to the Allies, and regarded as father of the Eurob... Read allBased on biography of the head of the family of centuries-old German-British Warburg banking dynasty by social economist Jacques Attali. Siegmund (S G) Warburg, who fled Nazi Germany for London in 1933, became a wartime financier to the Allies, and regarded as father of the Eurobond marknad and development of the hostile corporate takeover. With Henry Grunfeld he forme... Read all

From Publishers Weekly

Siegmund Warburg (1902–1982), scion of a Jewish banking dynasty, fled Nazi Germany to London, where he became a leading banker and an informal economic adviser to prime ministers—but his importance doesn't shine through this unfocused biography. Financial historian Ferguson (The Ascent of Money) styles him a financial innovator (he engineered Britain's first hostile takeover), a pioneer of European economic integration (he helped invent the Eurobond), a prophet of globalization, a paragon of fiscal rectitude whose principles could have helped us avoid the current economic mess, and a deep thinker about international affairs. Unfortunately, Ferguson doesn't make a compelling argument for his subject's significance. Laymen will find his sketchy treatment of Warburg's feats of high finance rather opaque and his case for Warburg the humanist and intellectual weak (and undermined by his subject's obsession with handwriting analysis). Ferguson uses Warburg's life a

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