More Money Than God

More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite (2010) is a financial book by Sebastian Mallaby published by Penguin Press.[1][2] Mallaby's work has been published in the Financial Times, Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic Monthly as columnist, editor and editorial board member. He is a senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).[3] The book is a history of the hedge fund industry in the United States looking at the people, institutions, investment tools and concepts of hedge funds. It claims to be the "first authoritative history of the hedge fund industry."[4] It is written for a general audience and originally published by Penguin Press. It was nominated for the 2010 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and was one the Wall Street Journal's 10-Best Books of 2010.[5] The Journal said it was "The fullest account we have so far of a too-little-understood business that changed the shape of finance and no doubt will continue to do so."[6]

More Money Than God
Hardcover
AuthorSebastian Mallaby
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectFinance, Hedge fund, Asset management
PublisherPenguin Press
Publication date
June 10, 2010 (2010-06-10)
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages496
ISBN1594202559
OCLC462897580

In a review in the New York Times, the book was called a "smart history of the hedge fund business" that explains "how finance’s richest moguls made their loot," and "argues that the obsessive, charismatic oddballs of the hedge fund world are Wall Street’s future — and possibly its salvation."[7]

Summary

In each chapter, Mallaby takes a narrative focus on one individual or company that played an important role in the history of hedge funds. Mallaby then weaves in other people, ideas or companies related to the star of the chapter. The following are some of the major people, institutions and concepts on a per chapter basis. The first in each list is the central character of that chapter.

Editions
  • More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite. Penguin Press, 2010. Hardcover USA. ISBN 978-1-59420-255-1
  • More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite. Penguin Paperbacks, 2011. Paperback USA. ISBN 978-0-14-311941-8
  • More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011. Paperback UK. ISBN 978-1-4088-0975-4
  • Kindle other electronic book editions.
  • Audiobook edition by Audible Audio, narrated by Alan Nebelthau.

See also

References
  1. "Review", Newsweek, 31 December 2015, retrieved 31 December 2015
  2. "Transcript, interview with Mallaby", Council on Foreign Relations, 16 June 2010
  3. "Sebastian Mallaby Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics". Council on Foreign Relations. July 27, 2011. Archived from the original on January 4, 2012. Retrieved 2011-07-27.
  4. "Review", Council on Foreign RelationsIncludes additional links to video interviews with Mallaby
  5. Lasswell, Mark (24 December 2010). "Year in Reviews: Books Our Critics Loved Dreamers, schemers and strategists dominated gripping tales of Prohibition, revolution and finance". Wall Street Journals. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  6. Patterson, Scott (16 June 2010). "The Long and Short of It: You'd be secretive, too, if you were making billion-dollar bets". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  7. Freeland, Chrystia (25 June 2010). "Hedge Hogs". New York Times. Sunday Book Review. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
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