Daniel Pinto provides a wake-up call for Western governments, corporate boards and business leaders: we must re-energise our large corporations, better control our financial markets and reposition the entrepreneur at the centre of our capitalist model if we are to overtake the East in the battle for economic supremacy.
Daniel Pinto lives in London and is co-founder and CEO of Stanhope Capital, one of the major independent asset-management groups in Europe and the founder and Chairman of the think tank New City Initiative (NCI), which has been at the forefront of the debate about ways of reforming the world of financial services in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. A former investment banker, Pinto has served for 20 years as a financial adviser to governments, executives of large groups, industrialists, entrepreneurs and some of the richest families in the old and new worlds. A regular contributor of articles and editorials on economic and financial issues to leading newspapers (International Herald Tribune, The Independent, Telegraph, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Les Echos) Pinto sits on several prominent boards and investment committees. He received an MBA from Harvard Business School, graduated from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris with an MA in Economics & Finance and holds an MSc in Finance from Université Paris-Dauphine. Pinto holds dual French and British citizenships.
Daniel Pinto has written an important and penetrating critique of
Western capitalism. Pinto argues that the West has lost the spirit
of entrepreneurial capitalism embodied in owner managed companies
much more common in the Far East. Western companies, he argues,
have become bureaucratic behemoths, struggling with regulation and
notions of ‘good governance’. Meanwhile, he warns us, the shift in
economic power continues to move to Asia. This book deserves a wide
circulation in the corridors of Whitehall.
*former Chancellor of the Exchequer, United Kingdom*
In Capital Wars, Daniel Pinto makes a compelling case for a new
kind of entrepreneurial spirit needed to resuscitate Western
economies. Five years after the global financial crisis delivered a
near-fatal blow to our capitalist model, he argues that a new breed
of modern-day entrepreneur is essential to build the
wealth-creating businesses of the future. His forward-looking
perspective is a breath of fresh air and he’s absolutely right; if
businesses in the more developed economies do rise to the challenge
of ‘entrepreneurial reinvigoration’, it’ll put us back on track to
deliver long-term economic growth and shared prosperity in the
West.
*Chairman of JCB*
Risky, long-term research and development, not short term profit
hunting, leads to sustainable growth. It is why I have kept Dyson
private. It allows us to explore technology properly, to get
meaningful results. This approach is too slow and risky for some
shareholders – Capital Wars addresses this head on.
*founder of the Dyson Company*
Daniel Pinto has written a remarkable book. He begins with an
informed and merciless analysis of how the West has strayed; and
then goes on to propose a practical programme for change that makes
instinctive and inspiring sense: all in admirable English. If our
leaders are wise enough to read, digest and apply, the West will be
entitled to fear less and hope for more than current opinion
holds.
*CEO, WPP*
Daniel Pinto offers a timely challenge to the West via a
fascinating exploration of the dynamic East.
*former CEO of BP and the UK Government’s Lead Non-Executive
Director*
This is not another ponderous tome by a dabbling academic outsider,
but a broad, spirited, articulate and incredibly well-informed
assessment of both global economic performance over the past two
decades and prospects for the future.
*CHOICE connect, a publication of the Association of College and
Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Assocation*
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