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Rogue Hormones,Trading, and Courage

Rogue Hormones,Trading, and Courage:

An Economist article, Trader's Brains:  Rogue Hormones, warns us that rogue traders — those who, caught up in the euphoria of successful market trading, allow their normally risk-averse stances and strategies to be overcome — might not be so uncharacteristic of high-volume, high-value, high-reward traders in general.  The research of Cambridge neuroscientist John Coates

suggests that hormones drive investment decisions to a far greater extent than...

"Corporate Culture" Top Priority for Ethics and Compliance Leaders

"Corporate Culture" Top Priority for Ethics and Compliance Leaders:

A recent report (full version here) by LRN, a company that aims at "fostering ethical cultures" within business environments interprets results from a survey given to Ethics and Compliance executives, and raises some interesting issues adequately visible, perhaps, only from a Virtue Ethics perspective. 

The report suggests that, at least for those tasked with promoting some sort of ethics within companies and corporate...

Dark City, Descartes, and Narrative Doubts

Over the long Labor Day weekend, my partner and wife-to-be and I watched the movie Dark City, for her first time and for perhaps my twentieth viewing.  After seeing it in the theater when it came out in 1998, I've shown it in various Philosophy classes, and I've watched it on my own a number of times to enjoy again its semi-noir, moody, dimlit setting, its decent and entertaining play both with some philosophical concepts (or perhaps, rather, tropes), its reliably good though not outstanding ...