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Sam Vaknin

Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West Lost the East. He served as a columnist for Global Politician, Central Europe Review, PopMatters, and eBookWeb , a United Press International (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent, and editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory Bellaonline, and Suite101 .

Until recently, he served as the Economic Advisor to the Government of Macedonia.

Visit Sam's Web site at http://samvak.tripod.com
palma@unet.com.mk

Articles by Sam Vaknin:

  •   Alice in Credit Card Land - On Chargebacks
  •   An Ambarrassment of Riches
  •   Battle of the Titans - Encarta vs. the Britannica
  •   Begging Your Trust in Africa
  •   Bosnia - An Economy in search of a State
  •   Bright Planet, Deep Web
  •   Chechnya War - Economic Cost to Russia
  •   Competition Laws
  •   Contracts and Property Rights in Countries in Transition
  •   Corruption and Transparency
  •   Crisis of the Bookkeepers - Interview with David Jones
  •   Deja Googled
  •   Dividing The Loot
  •   Does Free Content - Sell?
  •   E(merging) Books
  •   Eastern Europe's Change of Climate
  •   Economic Management in a State of War
  •   Economics - Psychology's Neglected Branch
  •   Eight Questions about Technology
  •   Electricity Markets in Eastern Europe
  •   Financial Crises, Global Capital Flows and the International Financial Architecture
  •   Financing Transport Projects
  •   German Bankers in Denial
  •   God's Diplomacy - International Trade and the Economy
  •   Going Bankrupt in the World
  •   Governments and Growth
  •   Greeks Bearing Gifts - Greek Investments in the Balkans
  •   Hawala, or The Bank That Never Was
  •   Healthcare Legislation in Countries in Transition
  •   History of Previous European Currency Unions
  •   How Do Countries Devalue Their Currencies?
  •   Immortality and Mortality in the Economic Sciences
  •   Infrastructure and Prosperity
  •   Internet : A Medium or a Message
  •   Internet Advertising - What Went Wrong?
  •   Invasion of the Amazons
  •   Is Education a Public Good?
  •   Is My Money Safe? On The Soundness Of Our Banks
  •   Jamaican OverDrive - Outsourcing and Offshoring Case Study
  •   Just War
  •   Lebanon - The Forgotten Key
  •   Legalizing Crime
  •   Lessons in Transition
  •   Liquidity or Liquidation
  •   Making Your Workers Your Partners
  •   Maps of Cyberspace
  •   Market Impeders and Market Inefficiencies
  •   Microsoft's Encarta Premium 2007
  •   Microsoft's Student 2007
  •   Money Laundering in A Changed World
  •   Monitoring Macedonia
  •   Moral Hazard and the Survival Value of Risk
  •   Narcissism in the Boardroom
  •   Narcissistic Leaders
  •   Narcissists in Positions of Authority
  •   Nation Branding and Place Marketing
  •   Nation Branding and Place Marketing - II. The Product
  •   Nation Branding and Place Marketing - III. The Price
  •   Nation Branding and Place Marketing - IV. The Place
  •   Nation Branding and Place Marketing - Marketing Implementation, Evaluation, and Control
  •   Nation Branding and Place Marketing - Promotion, Sales, Public Relations, Marketing, and Advertising
  •   Nation Branding and Place Marketing - VI. The Sales Force
  •   Nation Branding and Place Marketing - VIII. The Psychology and Demographics of the Consumer
  •   NGOs - The Self-Appointed Altruists
  •   Notes on the Economics of Game Theory
  •   Organ Trafficking in Eastern Europe
  •   Processing the Export Zones
  •   Public Procurement and Very Private Benefits
  •   Revolt of the Scholars
  •   Russia as a Creditor
  •   Russia's Energy Sector
  •   Scavenger Economies, Predator Economies
  •   Shuttle Trade - Trading from a Suitcase
  •   Slovenia - The Star Pupil
  •   Small Businesses - Big Obstacles
  •   Syria's Sunshine Policy
  •   Technical and Fundamental Analyses of Financial Assets
  •   The Affair of the Vanishing Content
  •   The Agent-Principal Conundrum
  •   The Argument for Torture
  •   The Asian Tigers and the Phenomenon of Uninterrupted Economic Growth
  •   The Blessings of the Black Economy
  •   The Bursting Asset Bubbles - - Britain's Real Estate
  •   The Bursting Asset Bubbles - Introduction
  •   The Bursting Asset Bubbles - The Savings and Loans Associations Bailout
  •   The Bursting Asset Bubbles - Wall Street, October 1929
  •   The Business of Nuclear Waste
  •   The Business of Torture
  •   The Chinese Room Revisited
  •   The Cost of Forgiveness
  •   The Criminality of Transition
  •   The Delicate Art of Balancing the Budget
  •   The Demise of the Dinosaur PTTs
  •   The Demise of the Mittelstand
  •   The Disintermediation of Content
  •   The Dismal Mind - Economics as a Pretension To Science
  •   The Distributive Justice of the Market
  •   The Ecology of Environmentalism
  •   The Economics of Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG)
  •   The Economics of Spam
  •   The Economies of the Middle East
  •   The European Bank for the Retardation of Development
  •   The Fabric of Economic Trust
  •   The Fall and Fall of the p-Zine
  •   The Fourth Law of Robotics
  •   The Future of Electronic Publishing
  •   The Future of Online Reference
  •   The Future of the Book
  •   The Future of the Britannica - Interview with Tom Panelas
  •   The Future of the SEC - Interview with Gary Goodenow
  •   The Ghost in the Net
  •   The Golden Sham - Privatizing with Golden Shares
  •   The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Employee and Management Owned Firms
  •   The Greatest Savings Crisis in History
  •   The Green-Eyed Capitalist
  •   The Idea of Reference
  •   The Ifs and VATs of Value Added Taxes
  •   The In-credible Web
  •   The Inferno of the Finance Director
  •   The Internet And The Library
  •   The Internet in the Countries in Transition
  •   The Kidnapping of Content
  •   The Macedonian Lottery
  •   The Medium and the Message
  •   The Metaphors of the Net
  •   The Miraculous Conversion
  •   The Morality of Child Labor
  •   The Myth of the Earnings Yield
  •   The Narcissist in the Workplace
  •   The Polyglottal Internet
  •   The Predicament of the Newly Rich
  •   The Prices of Oil
  •   The Professions of the Future
  •   The Real Threats to the Economy of the USA
  •   The Revolt of the Poor: The Demise of Intellectual Property?
  •   The Road to Damascus
  •   The Seamless Web
  •   The Second Coming in Albania
  •   The Shadowy World of International Finance
  •   The Sickly State of Public Hospitals
  •   The Solow Paradox
  •   The Space Industry in Russia
  •   The Technology of Law
  •   The Territorial Web
  •   The Typology of Financial Scandals
  •   The Ubiquitous Project Gutenberg
  •   The Uncommon Poverty of the Commonwealth
  •   The Value of Stocks of a Company
  •   The Wages of Science
  •   To Grow Out Of Unemployment
  •   To Tax or Not to Tax - This is the Question
  •   Turing Machines and Universes
  •   Why the Beatles Made More Money than Einstein
  •   Will Content Ever be Profitable?
  •   Workaholism, Leisure and Pleasure
  •   Zimbabwe - Black Farmers, White Farms
  •   Zoran against the World - Entrepreneurship in Transition