'High Financier' Book Excerpt - WSJ.com
"From the moment he hit the headlines with the first ever hostile takeover bid in 1959 until his death in 1982, Siegmund Warburg was the City's presiding genius, a brilliant exponent of high finance – haute banque, as he liked to call it – who saw with unrivalled prescience the possibilities of global financial reintegration after the calamities of the Depression and two world wars. He was the architect of that transformation of economic institutions which led the Western world back to the free market after the mid-century excesses of state control"
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
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