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78Do psychopaths rule the world?
At the highest level business and politics provide sheltered employment for psychopaths by requiring and rewarding behaviours commonly exhibited by psychopaths and some corporations actively recruit psychopaths for senior positions. Ways to resolve this problem are presented and the issues of whether psychopaths are human and how they may be used or controlled are breifly discussed.
7 comments65Democracy is not that simple
“Global Democracy now” read the banner. But what sort of democracy? Democracy involves ensuring the will of the people is respected most of the time, while the interests of minorities are protected. Or put in another way democracy must...
3 comments71The Prisoners Dilemma
Mainstream Eonomics, which failed to predict the recession in 2008, which was the bursting of a bubble fueled by the uses fo complex financial instruments, 1998, the recession of 1988 which resulted from a boom in derivatives that meant the...
3 comments67Why voters are irrational
In my hubs on Scientific Spirituality I outlined various drivers of irrational behaviour. Here I will look at how they affect political behaviour. If we are aware of these drivers when listening to our politicians, whether the chairman of the...
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