Reconciling globalization and open society, from a man who walks the talk.
6/10/2002
"I am often told that there is some kind of contradiction between profiting from global financial markets and trying to reform them. I do not see it," writes financier and open-society advocate George Soros. "I am passionately interested in improving the system that has allowed me to be successful so that it will become more enduring." In this meditation on tensions surrounding markets and globalization, Soros zeroes in on four controversial protagonists: the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, international aid groups, and multilateral development banks. His prescriptions for improvement are valuable since he is one person who has made it a personal mission to see all angles of the globalization story.