{"product_id":"9780141022017-high-financier","title":"High Financier","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg\u003cbr\u003eFeatures the story of Siegmund Warburg: the refugee from Nazi Germany who restored the Blitz-shattered City of London as the world's pre-eminent international financial centre. It shows how this scholarly man brought wit, passion and high ethical standards to the world of finance, and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis  is the extraordinary story of Siegmund Warburg: the refugee from Nazi  Germany who restored the Blitz-shattered City of London as the world's  preeminent international financial centre. In recounting how this  brilliant, scholarly man brought wit, passion and, above all, high  ethical standards to the world of finance, Niall Ferguson shows how his  meticulous methods were the antithesis of the debt-fuelled, speculative  banking of our times. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A fascinating portrait . Beautifully paced, dramatically subtle  and psychologically shrewd . Warburg is an emblem of money as it ought  to be, and now isn't'  Bryan Appleyard, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e'Extensively researched and beautifully written'  Peter Stormonth Darling, \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Ferguson's  account of Warburg's life not only reveals a prophet of European  unification and, later, globalization, but a banker from a more  responsible (and civilised) era'  Peter Mandelson, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e, Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A timely, original and engaging biography'  Sathnam Sanghera, \u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Financially  literate, extremely thorough, deploying dazzling breadth of cultural  reference .  Ferguson has produced a fine historical biography. He has  also reminded us, regrettably, that Warburg has no peer in the  financial world today'  Simon Shaw, \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56450621768054,"sku":"9780141022017","price":18.81,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32395436.jpg?v=1760453592","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141022017-high-financier","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}