Research Café 2014: Ricardo Blaug introduction – Leadership, democracy and hubris

“The theme today is the nature of leadership….Lord Owen has made a very interesting remark in his book The Hubris Syndrome that one possible ‘treatment’ for hubris may in fact be democracy…

One of several videos from our highly successful ‘Leadership, democracy and hubris’, Research Café. This well-attended event, the fourth cafe so far, was organised jointly by the Daedalus Trust and the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster and was held Tuesday, 4 March 2014.

“Thank you and welcome. The theme today is about the nature of leadership and perhaps the nature of non-hubristic leadership. Previous Cafes have been primarily in neuroscience and management but today we arrive at another of the great disciplinary contributors to the study of hubris which is the study of politics and history. ….Lord Owen has made a very interesting remark in his book The Hubris Syndrome that one possible ‘treatment’ for hubris may in fact be democracy…”