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In a recent interview with Jon Ronson for his book The Psychopath Test, Canadian psychologist Robert Hare, the world’s foremost expert on psychopaths and designer of the standard checklist (Hare PCL-R) for diagnosing them, declared, “I should never have done all my research in prisons. I should have spent my time inside the Stock Exchange as well.” “Really?” questioned Ronson. “But surely stock-market psychopaths can’t be as bad as serial killer psychopaths.” Hare responded, “Serial killers ruin families. Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.”
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Olson, G. (2013). Corporations: Empathy–Devoid Psychopaths. In: Empathy Imperiled. SpringerBriefs in Political Science, vol 10. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6117-3_6
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