...The “corporate psychopaths” at the helm of our financial institutions are to blame [for the financial crisis]. Clive R. Boddy, most recently a professor at the Nottingham Business School at Nottingham Trent University, says psychopaths are the 1 percent of “people who, perhaps due to physical factors to do with abnormal brain connectivity and chemistry” lack a “conscience, have few emotions and display an inability to have any feelings, sympathy or empathy for other people.” As a result, Boddy argues in a recent issue of the Journal of Business Ethics, such people are “extraordinarily cold, much more calculating and ruthless towards others than most people are and therefore a menace to the companies they work for and to society.” Did Psychopaths Take Over Wall Street Asylum?
Please read more from William D. Cohan: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-03/did-psychopaths-take-over-wall-stree...
Please read more from William D. Cohan: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-03/did-psychopaths-take-over-wall-stree...
