'The Corporation' has also been made into a film which is well worth watching.
Tina
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School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies
University of Leeds
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:04:28 +0100
From: Marcello Bertotti <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: The End is Nigh
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> Following on from Oliver's and Patrick's comment, there is also 'The
> Corporation' a book by Joel Bakan that makes the point that corporations can
> be compared to an individual with a psychopathic personality. So I would
> extend earlier comments about psychopathic traders to corporations and
> neo-liberalism ideology in general.
> Marcello
>
> Marcello Bertotti, BSc, MA, PhD, Research Fellow
> Institute for Health and Human Development,University of East London, UH 250,
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> From: A forum for critical and radical geographers on behalf of Patrick
> Bigger
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> Subject: Re: The End is Nigh
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>
> To follow up Oliver's comments, it's not just traders' behaviors that match
> up with psychopaths- it's neoclassical economists in general:
> "It has been found that the only people who really fit the simplified
> mathematical model of self-interested rational behaviour at all times are
> economists and psychopaths."
> That's the last line from the second episode of Adam Curtis's 2007 piece, The
> Trap, having explored John Nash's contribution to game theory while Nash was
> suffering from full blown paranoid schizophrenia. Now known as prisoner's
> dilemma, Nash originally called the game 'fuck you buddy.' At least he was
> honest I suppose.
> I haven't been able to find a citation for that claim, but I would welcome
> it.
>
> -patrick
> Patrick Bigger I PhD Student I Department of Geography I UK Political Ecology
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> Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human
> victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on us.
> Each victory, it is true, in the first place brings about the results we
> expected, but in the second and third places it has quite different,
> unforeseen effects which only too often cancel the first.
> Friedrich Engels, The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man
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>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Oliver Belcher <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
> This guy is NOT a con-man. But, he may be a psychopath. Here are two
> interesting articles on the guy out today from Forbes and the Telegraph.
> Forbes, in particular, has a money-quote:
>
> "A University of St. Gallen study shows stock market traders display
> similarities to certified psychopaths. The study, authored by MBA students
> Pascal Scherrer and Thomas Noll, compares decisions made by 27 equity,
> derivative and forex traders in a computer simulation against an existing
> study of 24 psychopaths in high-security hospitals in Germany. Not only do
> the traders match their counterparts, but, as Der Speigel succinctly puts it,
> the "stockbrokers' behavior is more reckless and manipulative than that of
> psychopaths."
>
>
>
> http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisbarth/2011/09/26/new-study-old-news-stock-tr
> aders-are-psychopaths/
>
>
>
> Here is today's story on the guy from the Telegraph:
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/8792829/BBC-financial-expert-Ale
> ssio-Rastani-Im-an-attention-seeker-not-a-trader.html
>
> Nevertheless, what surprises me most is not so much what Rastini
> says, but the shock that people have that Rastini would say such a thing "on
> the news." Speaking from personal experience, I have friends from childhood
> who unfortunately went "into business" after high school, and they all repeat
> Rastini's mantra to a T: the point is to make money off of crises. In other
> words, they either have no sense of how economic depressions are violent, or
> they ignore it, like Rastini.
>
> Oliver!
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Thomas Doerfler
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>
> Am 29.09.2011 um 17:35 schrieb Jonathan Cloke:
>
>
> > Those of you who read/remember my previous post on the
> ongoing market collapse and forthcoming break-up of the Eurozone should
> listen to this gentleman, Alessio Rastani. Every so often, through the fog of
> battle and pure propaganda, someone forgets themself and you hear the pure,
> unalloyed truth. Worth watching for the reaction of the BBC newsreader alone:
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsDjTbP7TS0
>
>
>
> seems so far as if he's a con man. And in fact, he doesn't
> tell anything with substance, listen closely. Albeit he's right what he says
> 'bout the system in his mockery. If you need a talented actor for a critical
> play on today's capitalism, take him.
>
> thomas
>
>
>
>
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> Oliver Christian Belcher
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> Department of Geography
> University of British Columbia
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> be sure, a non-scientific wish." Max Horkheimer
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