In his last book, Soros tells about himself what only a few close people know about - about his childhood in occupied Hungary, about relatives and distant people - philosophers and businessmen - who had a deep emotional impact on George. In frank interviews with his old friend Byron Wien, who developed investment strategies, Soros talks about how he overcame his complexes all his life and what pushed him to become a financier. In this part of the book, Soros appears not only as the narrator of the biography of the successful creator and head of multibillion-dollar charitable foundations, but also as a philosopher. It sets out views on the development of the global financial system, on the geopolitical trends of recent years, on the fate of the revolutions of the 80-90s in the countries of Eastern Europe.

If the Alchemy of Finance (Moscow: INFRA - M, 1996) is a sketch of the theory of reflexivity, in this book Soros describes the tests of his theory on real financial markets - how, as a result of his alchemical experiments, he became the owner of enormous funds. Markets and exchange specialists will benefit from the keen observations of a financier—a pragmatist and a sensitive philosopher—on market signals. In the second part of the book, in an interview with Christina Coenen for the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper, Soros appears as a politician, a promoter of the ideas of an open society, generously funding those who are ready to implement this idea. The reader will find a frank and bitter story about the troubles and pains of Soros's foundations in many countries. This will be a story about our almost today's history. In the appendix, the reader will get acquainted for the first time with Soros's pragmatic considerations regarding hedge funds and the prospects for a common European currency.

Frank and subtle observations are the key to the new work. Soros on Soros (Ahead of Change) will be read with interest by those who shape government and financial policies, stockbrokers and bankers, politicians and philosophers. It will be professionally useful to psychologists, those who manage companies and people. We recommend it to students, as well as to everyone who thinks about life. As in The Alchemy of Finance, many pages seem to have been written specifically for Russia.