Articles, tagged with "sam vaknin", page 1
Pathological Narcissism, Group Behaviour, and Terrorism
Pathological Narcissism, Group Behaviour, and TerrorismBy: Sam Vaknin1. What is pathological narcissism?All of us have narcissistic TRAITS. Some of us even develop anarcissistic PERSONALITY. Moreover, narcissism is a SPECTRUM ofbehaviours - from the healt...
Immigrants and the Fallacy of Labour Scarcity
Immigrants and the Fallacy of Labour ScarcitySam VakninUPI Senior Business CorrespondentSkopje, MacedoniaFirst Read:Migration and Brain Drainhttp://samvak.tripod.com/pp118.htmlJean-Marie Le Pen - France's dark horse presidential contender - isclearly emot...
The Sickly State of Public Hospitals
The Sickly State of Public HospitalsSam VakninUPI Senior Business CorrespondentSkopje, MacedoniaHospitals are caught in the crossfire of a worldwide debate. Shouldhealthcare be completely privatized - or should a segment of it be leftin public hands? As t...
Games People Play
Games People PlayBy: Sam VakninGames and role-playing are as ancient as Mankind. Rome's state-sponsoredlethal public games may have accounted for up to one fifth of its GDP. Theyoften lasted for months. Historical re-enactments, sports events, chess -are ...
Why the Beatles Made More Money than Einstein
Why the Beatles Made More Money than Einstein
By Sam Vaknin
Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"
Why did the Beatles generate more income in one year than Albert
Einstein did throughout his long career?
The reflexive answer i...
Winning the European CAP (Common Agricultural Policy)
Winning the European CAP (Common Agricultural Policy)
By Sam Vaknin
Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"
According to a June 2005 OECD report, and contrary to popular, media- fostered impressions, farm subsidies are being phased o...
To Give with Grace
To Give with Grace
By Sam Vaknin
Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"
Yankee Go Home. Nato is Nazo. American trash culture. The graffiti
adorn every wall, the contempt seems to be universal. America and
Americans are perceived...
The Future of the Book
The Future of the Book
By Sam Vaknin
Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"
One of the first acts of the French National Assembly in 1789 was to
issue this declaration: "The free communication of thought and
opinion is one of the ...
The Golden Sham - Privatizing with Golden Shares
The Golden Sham - Privatizing with Golden Shares
By Sam Vaknin
Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"
In a rare accord, both the IMF and independent analysts, have
cautioned Bulgaria in early 2002 that its insistence on keeping
g...
The Internet in the Countries in Transition
The Internet in the Countries in Transition
By Sam Vaknin
Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"
Though the countries in transition are far from being an homogeneous
lot, there are a few denominators common to their Internet
exp...
The Last Family
The Last Family
By Sam Vaknin
Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"
There is no word for it in Russian. Platon Karatayev, the
typical "Russian soul" in Tolstoy's "War and Peace", extols, for
pages at a time, the virtues of commun...
The Magla Vocables
The Magla Vocables
By Sam Vaknin
Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"
The Macedonians have a word for it - "Magla", fog. It signifies the
twin arts of duplicity and ambiguity. In the mental asylum that the
swathe of socialist co...
The Matrix Revisited
The Matrix Revisited
By Sam Vaknin
Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"
It is easy to confuse the concepts of "virtual reality" and
a "computerized model of reality (simulation)". The former is a self- contained Universe, replet...
The Medium and the Message
The Medium and the Message
By Sam Vaknin
Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"
A debate is raging in e-publishing circles: should content be
encrypted and protected (the erstwhile Barnes and Noble or Digital
goods model) - or sho...
The Pettifogger Procurators
The Pettifogger Procurators
By Sam Vaknin
Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"
Four years ago, the most unusual event has gone unnoticed in the
international press. A former minister of finance has accused the
more prominent mem...