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British business professor Clive R. Boddy contends that the reckless Wall Street executives who wrecked their firms, the economy and taxpayers are psychopaths ? that is, “people who, perhaps due to physical factors to do with abnormal brain connectivity and chemistry” lack a “conscience, have few emotions and display an inability to have any feelings, sympathy or empathy for other people.” (See Cohan: “Did Psychopaths Take Over Wall Street?” Bloomberg). Cohan is a former investment banker himself, and the author of “Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World.” Boddy’s article is called “Corporate Psychopaths Theory of the Global Financial Crisis,” and was published in the “Journal of Business Ethics.”