Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, for a discussion of his new book, "More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite." Topics covered include: managing risk in international finance; the function and evolution of hedge funds; how the game is played; the changing relationship of hedge funds to international political and economic structures; the causes of the 2008 economic collapse; regulation and government intervention; and the future of hedge funds in the world economy.
Series: "Conversations with History" [1/2011] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 20384]
The problem with all this is risk is the means of negative feedback in capitalism. If you remove, or hide, or hege the risk away then you remove the means of negative feedback and capitalistic economies can grow out of bounds .... just like ours has. All economies need negative feedback. The communists tried to plan and legislate it away, now we have hedged it away. Very very dangerous.
AndrewTubbiolo 10 months ago
very deep indeed, a sharp look on economy world.
interesting and useful !
avvocatogorgia 1 year ago
This gentleman Sebastian Mallaby makes economy history very interesting and entertaining... I realy enjoed the video!
slonamu 1 year ago