[PEN-L:32642] Re: Bush, moron? ref # 32618

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: Re: Bush, moron? ref # 32618

 

 Capitalism doesn't simply reward sociopathic behavior. It also trains
people to engage in it. (Isn't that what MBA school is about?)

BTW, the official diagnostic and statistical manual (DSM-IV) doesn't refer to people as "sociopaths" or "psychopaths" any more. What people used to call a "sociopath" or a "psychopath" is now said to have "antisocial personality disorder." And capitalism is clearly antisocial.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Perelman
To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 11/28/2002 2:35 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:32621] Re: Re: Bush, moron? ref # 32618

I don't think that calling Bush a pyschopath is accusing him of having a
disability.  I just ordered an article which says that psychopathology
is
common within the executive suites.  It describes them as cold and
charming.

If this article is correct, psychopathology may be associated positively
with what markets call ability, not disability.

Babiak, P. 1995. "When Psychopaths Go to Work." International Journal of
Applied Psycholology, 44: pp. 171-188.

Of course, I am way over my head here with virtually no knowledge of the
subject.

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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