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Meltdown: The end of the age of greed. (2010)

The financial meltdown of 2008 “was the product of giant hubris and the untrammelled power of the financial elite.” Paul Mason, journalist, broadcaster, visiting professor University of Wolverhampton Publisher: Verso...

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Are overconfident CEOs better innovators? (2010)

"Firms with overconfident CEOs have greater return volatility, invest more in innovation, obtain more patents and patent citations, and achieve greater innovative success for given research and development expenditures.  ...

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Hubris: a primal danger. (2010)

"Concern about hubris is deeply embedded in our genes. Humans might have evolved ways to ... prohibit behaviors which threaten them. Strivings for rank and power can be threats, which is why dire...

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