Markets Are Shaped
By Those Who Act
Within Them.
Every major Soros text from 1987 to the present — mapped into a knowledge graph of reflexivity, boom-bust cycles, and open society philosophy.
Browse Writings →“Financial markets do not tend towards equilibrium. They help to shape the future they are supposed to discount.”
George Soros · MIT, 1994
Writings
212 works — The Alchemy of Finance, MIT lectures, Davos speeches, and essays on reflexivity and open society.
Browse Writings →Concepts
12 ideas — reflexivity, fallibility, boom-bust cycles, far-from-equilibrium markets.
Browse Concepts →People
4 figures — Karl Popper, Druckenmiller, and the philosophers who shaped Soros's thinking.
Browse People →The Reflexivity Framework
Ranked by frequency across all writings.
Selected Works
Can Democracy Survive the Polycrisis?
We are living in troubled times. Too much is happening too fast. People are confused. The Columbia University economic historian Adam Tooze has, indeed, popularized a word for it. He calls it a “polycrisis.”
Remarks Delivered at the 2023 Munich Security Conference
I’ve spent my entire life trying to understand the world I was born into, and I can claim some modest success. At a relatively early age I realized that our understanding is inherently imperfect.
Updating My Munich Predictions
The countries of the former Soviet empire, eager to assert their independence, eagerly await defeat of the Russian army in Ukraine. At that point, Vladimir Putin’s dream of a renewed Russian empire will disintegrate and cease to pose a threat to Euro…
George Soros on China: Remarks Delivered at the Hoover Institution
The following remarks were delivered at the opening of a Hoover Institution panel—China on the Eve of the Winter Olympics: Hard Choices for the World’s Democracies—on January 31, 2022.
Issuing Perpetual Bonds Would Show that Sunak is Serious
After Liz Truss’s disastrous financial performance as UK prime minister, the first task of her successor, Rishi Sunak, is to reassure markets that he is a professional. He must acknowledge the market worries about deficit spending, which were on full…