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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2005 Not for Sale! Non-commercial... ...us Trundle, a car salesman. So reveal documents released in January 2003 by the Public Record Office in the United Kingdom. Trundle is described... ... King did not wish to marry Simpson, merely to make her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different... ...n 1961 - then besieged by the Russians - he visited Germany and famously said, in a public speech: "Ich bin ein Berliner". Alas, "Berliner" in Germa... ...es.html http://cfpa.berkeley.edu/BHfaq.html http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/bh_home.html Bolivar, Simon Simon Bolivar (1783-1830... ...ut". Caesarean section was mandated in case of the mother's death in the "Roman Law" wrongly attributed to Numa Pompilius, the second of Rome's ... ...hired gumshoes, who spent their time mostly spying on each other. In 1923, Walter Law was found dead in his Nash sedan. Belva was involved with hi... ...e lines and borders effortlessly, making use of the latest advances in mass media, public transportation, telecommunications, and computer networks... ...portation, telecommunications, and computer networks. The police - there are 16,000 law enforcement agencies in the Unites States alone - is never ...

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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

... Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint Skopje 2006 Not for Sale! ... ...absentmindedly rotates his hefty ring. The announcer warns of imminent terrorist attacks on public transport. It recommends to err on the side of ca... ...d to exhaustively inspect fellow commuters. Trust no one – exhorts a representative of the law – be on alert, examine suspect objects, call on your... ... of me to have partaken in this tiff in the first place. Prisoners involved in incidents of public unrest end up spending a week or more in the near... ...ince she was wooed so forcefully. Janusz, consumed by twilight, bellowing ignominiously in public. It flatters her, evoking stirrings she can recog... ...this, into the night with the deranged and violent Janusz, who wastes his time on books, on public benches in twilight parks. What could he do to he... ... his eyes under a sinewy arm, flanked by two thick and raven eyebrows. "They should pass a law" – he argues to no one in particular – "People ought... ...y arm over his fluttering eyes, he blocks the fervid light and croaks: "They should pass a law." "Where's Mayer?" – I enquire. "Up in the room" –... ... of subscribers countrywide. In a legal precedent in 1995 – studied in business schools and law faculties across Israel – was tried for his role in ...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2003 First published by United Pr... ... an Organizing Principle XXVII. Narcissism in the Boardroom XXVIII. Is Education a Public Good? XXIX. The Demise of the Work Ethic XXX. Foreign Di... ...nce XXXVII. The Lessons of Transition XXXVIII. The Morality of Child Labor XXXIX. Law and Technology XL. The Author Economics - Psychology's Neg... ...or as the villain, seeking to perpetuate and increase its power ruthlessly, as per public choice theories. Both views are caricatures of reality. ... ...dministered by some supreme, transcendental principle is restored. This sense of "law and order" is further enhanced when the theory yields predic... ...ons which come true, either because they are self-fulfilling or because some real "law", or pattern, has emerged. Alas, this happens rarely. As "Th... ...s greed, mass fears, and mass disagreement as to the preferred mode of reaction to public and private information - yields price fluctuations. Cha... ...wer. Influential antitrust thinkers, such as Robert Bork, recommended to revise the law to focus solely on consumer welfare. These - and other ins... ...ital Management (LTCM) 1998 salvage - "$3.5 billion worth of moral hazard". Yet, no public money was used to rescue the sinking hedge fund and inves...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...g and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2002-7 Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition... ...eapfrogging Transition IV. The Selfish Net – The Semantic Web V. The Law of Technology VI. Metaphors of the Net VII. The Solow Paradox ... ... somewhat arbitrary definition of "book" is: ""Non-periodical printed publication of at least 49 pages excluding covers". The emergence of e... ...wkward, the software unwieldy, the e-books badly written or already in the public domain. Terrified by the inexorable process of disintermediatio... ...y to buy the physical product (RealRead), or micropayments (Amazon) - the public refuses to cough up. Moreover, the advertising-subsidized free ... ...eviewers will be granted "credit points" to be applied against the (paid) publication of their own papers, for instance. Scindex is the model of... ...rism.org and its commercial arm, Turnit.com, are the cyber equivalent of a law enforcement agency, acting after the fact to discover the culprits and... ...ium, such as the Internet. Computer technology seems to abide by "Moore's Law" which says that the number of transistors which can be put on a chip ... ...ed by inventive genius will ensure the continued applicability of Moore's Law. The Internet is also subject to "Metcalf's Law". It says that when...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...g and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2003-7 First published by United Press Inte... ...nal Development (HIID) and Prof. Jeffrey Sachs. THIS WORK IS NOT FOR PUBLICATION Copyright permissions must be obtained from Messrs. Di Tella a... ... MacCullouch and from arvard university and Prof. Jeffrey Sachs prior to publication. I. Recommendations Get the Real Picture No one i... ...y. The unemployed will be allowed to use voucher money to pay for certain public goods and services (such as health and education). Voucher money wi... ...remains employed. Thus, a graduated incentive scale has to be part of any law and incentive plan. Example: employers will get increasing participati... ...remains employed. Thus, a graduated incentive scale has to be part of any law and incentive plan. Example: employers will get increasing participati... ... allowed (see details below). I recommend altering the Labour Relations Law to allow more flexible hiring and firing procedures. Currently, to dis... .... They will be considered pensioners for the purposes of every applicable law and benefit (for instance, for the purposes of the Health Fund). 2. T... ...obvious (though false) allure. NOT RECOMMENDED Administrative Measures: Public Works All the medically capable unemployed should be compulsoril...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2007 Not for Sale! Non-commercial... ...a right to sustain his or her life, maintain, or prolong them at society's expense. Public hospitals, state pension schemes, and police forces may b... ... In some countries, the obligation to save life is legally codified. But while the law of the land may create a LEGAL right and corresponding LEGAL... ...d, if so (b) in which circumstances – can be easily settled using modern contract law. Yes, a contract can be annulled and voided if signed under ... ... Why is there a debate regarding this question? "Thou shalt not kill" is a natural law, it appears in virtually every legal system. It is easily an... ...hares rarely represent ownership. The float - the number of shares available to the public - is frequently marginal. Shareholders meet once a year t... ...y do shareholders cooperate with such corporate brigandage? In an important Chicago Law Review article whose preprint was posted to the Web a few we... ...are of the exact nature and extent of the rot - but they witnessed approvingly the public relations antics, insider trading, stock option resetting... ...ting evidence of market failures - for instance to provide affordable and plentiful public goods - this flawed theory returned with a vengeance in t...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2007 Not for Sale! Non-commercial... ...a right to sustain his or her life, maintain, or prolong them at society's expense. Public hospitals, state pension schemes, and police forces may b... ... In some countries, the obligation to save life is legally codified. But while the law of the land may create a LEGAL right and corresponding LEGAL... ...d, if so (b) in which circumstances – can be easily settled using modern contract law. Yes, a contract can be annulled and voided if signed under ... ... Why is there a debate regarding this question? "Thou shalt not kill" is a natural law, it appears in virtually every legal system. It is easily an... ...hares rarely represent ownership. The float - the number of shares available to the public - is frequently marginal. Shareholders meet once a year t... ...y do shareholders cooperate with such corporate brigandage? In an important Chicago Law Review article whose preprint was posted to the Web a few we... ...are of the exact nature and extent of the rot - but they witnessed approvingly the public relations antics, insider trading, stock option resetting... ...ting evidence of market failures - for instance to provide affordable and plentiful public goods - this flawed theory returned with a vengeance in t...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

... Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2009 Not for Sale! Non-commercial... ...sets. The former models are applicable mostly to companies whose shares are traded publicly, in stock exchanges. They are not very useful in trying... ...ountry (stable or geopolitically perilous), on the ownership structure (family or public), on the management in place (committed or mobile), on th... ...tocks of a private firm is between 7 and 10, for instance. If the company is in the public domain, the number can shoot up to 20 times net earnings.... ... of such arrears and overdue payments. 5. To collaborate with legal institutions, law enforcement agencies and private collection firms in assuri... ...omic categories of clients, sales promotion methods, advertising campaigns, image, public relations and other media campaigns. The strategic invest... ...e to the authorities - the tax administration, bank supervision, deposit insurance, law enforcement agencies, and securities and exchange commissio... .... Its board of directors has full authority to run the agency. The board obeys the law, not political masters. The FDIC has a preemptive role. It r... ...n supervising savings and loans. OTS is a unit within the Treasury Department, but law and custom make it practically an independent agency. The F...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

... Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2006 First published by United Pr... ... abuses - the international system for its own, ever changing, ends. International law is invoked by it when convenient - ignored when importune. ... ...it when convenient - ignored when importune. In short, America is a bully. It is a law unto itself and it legislates on the fly, twisting arms and ... ...ared to Scandinavia's 0.6%, for instance). This upright proponent of international law (under whose aegis it bombed and invaded half a dozen countr... ...g eugenics program (the 1935 anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws and the Nazi sterilization law were modeled after American anti- miscegenation and steriliza... ... Cold War tradition? Another commentary published a few days later may contain the public key. It is titled "The Paradox of American Power". The au... ...rs as "just" (i.e., in "self-defense"). Rome was very concerned with international public opinion and often formed coalitions to attack its foes an... ...United States now function only when exposed to acute embarrassment and a revolted public opinion. Private firms and charities sprout to fulfill th... ...structure - no matter how venerable and veteran - can resist the winds of change in public sentiment. Hurricane Katrina again demonstrated the unbr...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...ly. Feels superior, omnipotent, omniscient, invincible, immune, "above the law", and omnipresent (magical thinking). Rages when frustrated, contrad... ...ional restrictions it imposes. In certain situations, such as under constant public scrutiny and exposure, a transient and reactive form of the Narc... ...e – Narcissism Revisited, seventh revised impression, 1999-2007. Narcissus Publications, Prague and Skopje.] Return The Narcissist's Entitlement of... ...s pleasurable or gainful). In extreme cases, the narcissist feels above the law – any kind of law. This grandiose and haughty conviction leads to c... .... Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited. Skopje and Prague, Narcissus Publications, 2007 31. Zweig, Paul. The Heresy of Self Love: A Study of ... ...ficient amount of media exposure, book contracts, talk shows, lectures, and public attention – the narcissist may even consider the whole grisly aff... ...ial rights. The narcissist feels that he is protected by some cosmological law pertaining to "endangered species". He is convinced that his future c... ...show business, corporate management, the medical professions, the military, law enforcement agencies, politics, and sports. It is safe to predict th... ...rtant. To become a leader, one must convince the multitude, the masses, the public that one can deliver, not that one knows the best, most optimal a...

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Narcissism Book of Quotes

By: Sam Vaknin

...tric Association. Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited by: Sam Vaknin, Narcissus Publications, Skopje and Prague, 1999-2006. http://samvak.tr... ...sensitive things, I'll lie, I'll cheat, I'll be really cruel, possibly humiliate you in public. Hey, I might even beat you. Your job will be to figu... ...)." "Yes, absolutely. It's not a disorder of intelligence. Far from it. My N graduated law school near the top of his class. Emotionally, he's 5 ye... ...s them. You see, narcissists project their own pathology onto others." "Someday Family Law specialists, Family Court judges, court appointed child ... ... influence. They truly believe that they are right and entitled to operate outside the law, and they will attempt to build a convincing case for th... ...wise totally confused landscape. It is a triumph of right over wrong, weak over strong, law and order over chaos and capriciousness. The demise of h... ...events satisfaction and causes frustration, humiliates and insults her privately and in public, points out her shortcomings, criticises her profusel... ...ing gene' here and an 'aggression gene' there are derided by the more serious and less publicity-prone scholars. Yet, it would seem that even compl... ...xclusively for themselves and for their lost paradise. And they do so conspicuously and publicly – to attract attention." The Sad Dreams of the Narc...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

... Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2004 First published by Central E... ...mes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality." Thomas Sowell ... ...ally it was death, not union that caught up with them. The trial was closed to the public, opaque and hurried. The King apparently believed - or cl... ...etween Serbs and Croats that daily brawls broke in pubs and restaurants, trains and public places between Serb soldiers and Croat citizens in Croati... ...very telling. At first it concentrated its fiery intentions only upon military and law and order personnel. Its reluctance to effect civilians was ... ...n March, he accepted the terms of the agreement with a sombre Rugova in tow. These public acts of statesmanship: negotiating, bargaining and, final... ... bereft of finances, it was unable to imbue structure with content and provide the public goods a government is all about. The KLA was so starved f... ...ompanies, hospitals, managed healthcare, private clinics, academic departments, and law enforcement agencies rely, for their continued and exponent... ...mmunist jihad. It divided the planet into a Socialist camp - an area of beauty and law, and a Capitalist camp - an area of ugliness and law of the ...

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Abuse, Trauma, And Torture, And Their Consequences and Effects

By: Sam Vaknin

...ly. Feels superior, omnipotent, omniscient, invincible, immune, "above the law", and omnipresent (magical thinking). Rages when frustrated, contrad... ...ional restrictions it imposes. In certain situations, such as under constant public scrutiny and exposure, a transient and reactive form of the Narc... ...e – Narcissism Revisited, seventh revised impression, 1999-2007. Narcissus Publications, Prague and Skopje.] Return The Narcissist's Entitlement of... ...s pleasurable or gainful). In extreme cases, the narcissist feels above the law – any kind of law. This grandiose and haughty conviction leads to c... ....yahoo.com/group/narcissisticab use/message/5003 The Narcissist is Above the Law http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/narcissisticab use/message/4983 ... .... Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited. Skopje and Prague, Narcissus Publications, 2007 31. Zweig, Paul. The Heresy of Self Love: A Study of ... ...ficient amount of media exposure, book contracts, talk shows, lectures, and public attention – the narcissist may even consider the whole grisly aff... ...ial rights. The narcissist feels that he is protected by some cosmological law pertaining to "endangered species". He is convinced that his future c... ...was swept under the carpet for generations and only recently has it come to public awareness. Yet, even today, society – for instance, through the c...

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The Fundamental Assumptions Underlying the Modern Study of Psychopathology Examined.

By: Sam Vaknin

... Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2006 Not for Sale! Non-commercial... ...gene" here and an "aggression gene" there are derided by the more serious and less publicity-prone scholars. Yet, it would seem that even complex b... ...erence deplorable and acutely shameful (ego-dystonic). He resorts to homophobia. He public berates, taunts, and baits homosexuals. Additionally, he ... ...n Self-Esteem and Narcissism: Implications for Practice – October 1993 – ERIC/EECE Publications) F. The Narcissist's Mother - A Suggestion for an ... ... exacerbates the problem. Richard Sennett expounded on this theme in "The Fall of Public Man: On the Social Psychology of Capitalism" [Vintage Boo... ...The serial killer tightens the proverbial noose around his neck by interacting with law enforcement agencies and the media and thus providing them ... ...the same. In a range of demanding professions - surgeons, medical doctors, judges, law enforcement agents - objectification efficiently fends off a... ...t reality to fit their fantasies. In extreme cases, the pedophile feels above the law – any kind of law. This grandiose and haughty conviction lea... ...ompanies, hospitals, managed healthcare, private clinics, academic departments, and law enforcement agencies rely, for their continued and exponent...

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The Malignan Self Love : Narcissism Revisited

By: Sam Vaknin

...ed in Counselling Techniques. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint Prague & Skopje 2007 ... ...lving drug companies, hospitals, managed healthcare, private clinics, academic departments, and law enforcement agencies rely, for their continued ... ...arrogantly and haughtily. Feels superior, omnipotent, omniscient, invincible, immune, "above the law", and omnipresent (magical thinking). Rages whe... ...mental, and occupational restrictions it imposes. In certain situations, such as under constant public scrutiny and exposure, a transient and react... ... 1985 31. Vaknin, Sam. Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited. Skopje and Prague, Narcissus Publications, 1999-2007 32. Zweig, Paul. The Heresy... ...d antisocial (sociopath or psychopath). He ignores the wishes and needs of others, he breaks the law, he violates all rights, both natural and legal... ...ant and by "deciding to abort" they reassert their omnipotence. The narcissist's pronounced and public misery and self-pity are compensatory and "r... ... the narcissist's view of himself and of his world is correspondingly and equally volatile. As "public opinion" ebbs and flows, so do the narcissist... ...thority (they are contumacious) and often clash with authority figures (parents, bosses, or the law). Their sense of self-worth and their very self-...

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