Books
A selection of books that reward serious reading — on markets, power, and the conditions that make free societies possible.
In Defense of Open Society
A late-career defense of pluralism, democratic institutions, and the need to resist closed systems of power.
The Alchemy of Finance
An account of Soros's theory of reflexivity — the idea that market participants' biased perceptions feed back into the fundamentals they are trying to assess — illustrated through a real-time experiment running his Quantum Fund.
The Open Society and Its Enemies
A landmark critique of totalitarianism, tracing authoritarian ideas through Plato, Hegel, and Marx and making the philosophical case for an open, pluralist society.