More money than God :

Mallaby, Sebastian.

More money than God : hedge funds and the making of a new elite / Sebastian Mallaby. - New York : Penguin Press / Penguin Books, 2010. - 482 p. : charts, photographs ; 22 cm.

"A council on foreign relations book"--T.p. "A superbly researched history of hedge-fund heroes ... a fascinating tale." the economist --T.p. Index : p. 465-482.

Bibliography : p. [408]-463.

Big daddy -- The block trader -- Paul Samuelson's secret -- The alchemist -- Top cat -- Rock-and-roll cowboy -- White Wednesday -- Hurricane Greenspan -- Soros versus Soros -- The enemy is us -- The dot-com double -- The Yale men -- The code breakers -- Premonitions of a crisis -- Riding the storm -- "How could they do this?" -- Conclusion : scarier than what?

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