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Tony Blair is a narcissist with a messiah complex who is passionate about making money and lives a ‘strange life’ among the super-rich, according to a former close friend.   Mail Online 3 June 2014 Jack Doyle, from an interview with Robert Harris, former Blair confidant. Tony Blair is a narcissist with a messiah complex who is passionate about making money and lives a ‘strange life’ among the super-rich, ...

"By eliminating uncertainty in policy, has the Federal Reserve spread complacency among the financial community and actually helped inflate market bubbles? The author argues that greater transparency at the Fed   John Coates, Senior Research Fellow in Neuroscience and Finance, University of Cambridge New York Times Sunday Review, 7 June 2014 By eliminating uncertainty in policy, has the Federal Reserve spread co...

“Risk culture should be reimagined as a matter of integrity and a steadfast opposition to hubris and narcissistic traits.” Anthony Asher, Victoria Clout and Tracy Wilcox Paper presented to the Actuaries Institute Financial Services Forum, Sydney, May 2014. “Reports on the larger financial failures of recent times (of which we have referred to HIH, NAB and the Equitable) invariably blame poor culture and dominant pe...

"Thomas Farrow had …. become afflicted by managerial hubris. This was reflected most clearly in the fact that he increasingly came to view himself as being somehow above and beyond the laws of the wider community.   Matthew Hollow, Department of History, Durham University, UK Journal of Management History, Vol. 20 Iss: 2, pp.164 - 178 On the morning of 20 December 1920 at Farrow’s Bank head office on Cheapside...

“an exciting thesis... to derive business ethics from the pursuit of market efficiency, rather from everyday morality.” Joseph Heath, Professor in the Department of Philosophy as well as the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto Oxford University Press, 2014 A collection of essays providing “a compelling new framework for thinking about the moral obligations” of business - a ‘mark...

"Brown warns of the dangers of leaders who, whether in a democracy or a tyranny, seek to dominate policy and all those around them. The reality or the delusion of unchallenged power often leads to faulty policy and misfortune for those governed   Archie Brown, Emeritus Professor of Politics, Oxford University;  Emeritus Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford; Fellow of the British Academy Published by Bodley Head, part of...