Meet The 26 Members Of George Soros's Secret Team To Rewrite Economics

Likes: Writing economic columns for The Times, spending money

Dislikes: Saving money

Interests: Has been writing about finance and economics since he started at The Economist in 1976.

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Likes: Macroeconomic theory, particularly neoclassical approaches

Dislikes: Keynesian macroeconomic theory

Interests: Teaching at UCLA

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Likes: Classical political economy

Dislikes: Global warming

Interests: Teaching at The New School

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Likes: Information asymmetry

Dislikes: The fact that people construe his theories to support anti-abortion campaigns

Interests: Polishing his Nobel Prize, teaching at Berkeley

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Likes: Goodhart's Law

Dislikes: Setting economic indicators as targets

Interests: Former London School of Economics Professor and member of their Financial Markets Group

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Likes: Being a Knight, his 7 honorary doctorates

Dislikes: When people don't cite him

Interests: Teaching at Oxford

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Likes: Development, particularly African

Dislikes: People who are against aid for Africa

Interests: Teaching at Oxford, the World Bank

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Likes: Advising on leveraged buyouts, being on lots of boards

Dislikes: Not having his name on Roubini Global Economics, which he is a board member of

Interests: His primary job at private equity firm Warburg Pincus

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Likes: Blaming Barack Obama for climate change policy failure

Dislikes: When UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon phones him late at night for advice

Interests: Being Director of The Earth Institute, chilling on the quad at Columbia, running the Millennium Villages project

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Likes: Being pro-business, but not necessarily pro-market

Dislikes: The gap between the rich and poor

Interests: Being a professor at the London School of Economics, advising the Scottish Government

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Likes: Human Rights

Dislikes: International crimes against humanity

Interests: Being President of the Budapest based Central European University

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Likes: Fighting with hedge fund managers

Dislikes: Barack Obama's bank bailout, the Fed's corruption

Interests: Teaching at Columbia, global governance

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Likes: Chess

Dislikes: Debt

Interests: Teaching at Harvard, writing epic books covering 800 years of economic history

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Likes: Researching for the New York Fed

Dislikes: Systemic risk

Interests: Teaching at Princeton

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Likes: Writing about the credit crisis

Dislikes: People who overvalue Scholes in the Black-Scholes equation

Interests: Teaching at Barnard

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Likes: Being introduced as both a Nobel Laureate and Knight

Dislikes: Moral hazard

Interests: Debate team

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Likes: Government policy's impact on the market

Dislikes: Thinking about the time he had to come up with a solution for the Savings and Loan crisis

Interests: Being a managing director at Tudor Funds

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Likes: Studying the economic impact of a move from communism to capitalism

Dislikes: Imperfection

Interests: Hanging out in Washington Square Park, teaching at NYU

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Likes: His Nobel Prize, his 80 honorary doctorates

Dislikes: Possibly his nickname

Interests: Teaching at Harvard, OXFAM

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Likes: Entrepreneurship

Dislikes: Having to write that New York Times blog every week

Interests: Teaching at MIT, his website Baseline Scenario

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Likes: Thinking about information flows

Dislikes: Having to share his Nobel Prize with Stiglitz and Akerlof

Interests: Getting prepped to start teaching at NYU

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Likes: Talking about politics

Dislikes: When people say politics don't matter

Interests: Wandering Boston Commons while teaching at UMass Boston

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Likes: Being right when Greenspan was wrong

Dislikes: People lauding him for his prediction of the economic crisis (aww shucks)

Interests: Hanging out, retired, in Canada

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Likes: Working on fixing the faults at Citigroup

Dislikes: Handling his many different passports

Interests: Hanging out at the London School of Economics

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Likes: Working on India's economy

Dislikes: People who don't respect long term civil servants

Interests: Collecting honorary degrees and government titles

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Likes: Writing about the Chinese economy

Dislikes: Thinking about his time working in the Chinese machine factory

Interests: Macroeconomics, world economics, and writing books

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Likes: Having lots of money, betting against the pound

Dislikes: Fannie and Freddie

Interests: Remaking the world in his economic image, showing up to Carlyle Group meetings

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