Sebastian Mallaby, Author . Penguin Press $29.95 (462p) ISBN 978-1-59420-023-6
As portrayed by Washington Post
columnist Mallaby, the charming, powerful, Australian-born millionaire James Wolfensohn works to transform the World Bank, of which he is president, from a Cold War dinosaur obsessed with regulations and procedures...
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Sebastian Mallaby, Author . Penguin Press $29.95 (496p) ISBN 978-1-59420-255-1
Journalist Mallaby (The World's Banker
) gives unusually lucid explanations of hedge funds and their balancing of long and short positions with complex derivatives, but what really entrances him is their freedom from regulation, high leverage,...
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Sebastian Mallaby. Penguin Press, $35 (800p) ISBN 978-1-59420-484-5
Alan Greenspan, who served as chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006 (the second longest tenure in history), is revealed in this biography to have been neither the fabled maestro who mastered inflation nor the reviled incompetent who...
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Sebastian Mallaby. Penguin Press, $30 (496p) ISBN 978-0-525-55999-3
The venture capitalist mindset requires making crazy bets for outlandish returns, according to this sharp take on Silicon Valley’s bankrollers. Washington Post columnist Mallaby (The Man Who Knew) recaps the roles of venture capital firms in the...
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