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I'm not qualified to make that claim at all. However, there is plenty of literature that backs up my claims by people who do have the qualifications. Someone a

• dpark 14y ago
  Plenty of literature and the best example is a trade paperback? How about some journalistic publications? While I do not doubt that Hare and Babiak have the credentials, the linked book seems rather fluffy. It specifically does not discuss any actual psychopaths, merely fictional ones, nor does it seem to quantify any actual increase in the number of psychopaths in the business world. Rather, it seems instead to discuss how psychopaths can thrive in the business world, which is a very different question from how many. (I have not read the book, though, merely the previews and excerpts that I could find.) And of course, let us not forget that an increase (if there is one) in psychopaths in business is not the same as psychopathy being "normal in most corporates". Nor should we pretend that all business people are MBAs or that all MBAs are even working in the business world. In short, you've got little to no evidence for an increase in psychopathy, even less evidence for the jump to it being common, and basically no reason for the link to MBAs.