Divorce as a Re-Distributive Mechanism and Wealth Transfer

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited""Even in modern times, in most cases husbands and wives differ in their potential for acquiring property. In separation of property, husbands and wives owning property and dealing with each other will be in...

Immigrants and the Fallacy of Labour Scarcity

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" Jean-Marie Le Pen - France's dark horse presidential contender - is clearly emotional about the issue of immigration and, according to him, its correlates, crime and unemployment. His logic is dodgy at best...

Innovation and the Capitalistic Dream

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited"On 18 June business people across the UK took part in Living Innovation 2002. The extravaganza included a national broadcast linkup from the Eden Project in Cornwall and satellite-televised interviews with...

Corporate Narcissism: Narcissism in the Boardroom

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" The perpetrators of the recent spate of financial frauds in the USA acted with callous disregard for both their employees and shareholders - not to mention other stakeholders. Psychologists have often...

The Economics of Conspiracy Theories

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" Barry Chamish is convinced that Shimon Peres, Israel's wily old statesman, ordered the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, back in 1995, in collaboration with the French. He points to apparent tampering with...

Euthanasia and the Right to Die

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited"I. Definitions of Types of EuthanasiaEuthanasia, whether in a medical setting (hospital, clinic, hospice) or not (at home) is often erroneously described as "mercy killing". Most forms of euthanasia are,...

The Solow Paradox

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" On March 21, 2005, Germany's prestigious Ifo Institute at the University of Munich published a research report according to which "More technology at school can have a detrimental effect on education and...

Workaholism, Leisure and Pleasure

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" In his book, "A Farewell to Alms" (Princeton University Press, 2007), Gregory Clark, an economic historian at the University of California, Davis, suggests that downward social mobility in England caused...

Social Values and the Health System

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" There are as many health systems and models as there are countries. This is because healthcare is a public good and, thus, reflects the social and cultural values of the societies that design and adopt...

The Morality of Child Labor

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" From the comfort of their plush offices and five to six figure salaries, self-appointed NGO's often denounce child labor as their employees rush from one five star hotel to another, $3000 subnotebooks and...

NGOs: The Self-Appointed Altruists

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" Their arrival portends rising local prices and a culture shock. Many of them live in plush apartments, or five star hotels, drive SUV's, sport $3000 laptops and PDA's. They earn a two figure multiple of the...

The Uselessness of Indices Produced by NGOs

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited"Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index Like many other an NGO (non-governmental organization) Berlin-based Transparency International (TI) is mainly preoccupied with perpetuating...

The Second Middle Ages

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" The fourth quarter of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first herald a period akin, in some respects, to certain stretches of the Middle Ages. The High Middle Ages – especially...

Surviving on Nuclear Waste

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" On May 11, 2005, Romania hosted a two-day exercise simulating a nuclear accident. It was conducted at the Cernavoda nuclear power plant. But the real radiological emergency is already at hand and unfolding....