Unmasking financial psychopaths : inside the minds of investors in the twenty-first century / Deborah W. Gregory
By: Gregory, Deborah Wright.
Publisher: New York City : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2016Edition: First edition.Description: x, 189 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781349475391 (paperback : alk. paper).Subject(s): Investments -- United States -- Psychological aspects | Capitalists and financiers -- United States | Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009Genre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | HG4515.15 .G74 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000011780 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-181) and index
Introduction -- Entry into the universe of finance -- The impact of culture -- (r)evolutionary happenings -- Opportunities and the changing players -- Identifying psychopaths -- Rogues and psychopaths -- Biotrophic parasites and psychopaths -- Financial psychopaths unmasked
Unmasking Financial Psychopaths suggests that an increasing number of financiers labeled "financial psychopaths" are not truly psychopathic, but instead are by-products of a rapidly changing personal and professional environment.