Like drug addiction, greed hijacks the brain's reward system. In healthcare, this pathological pursuit of profit has life-or-death consequences.

A long time ago, A million years B.C. The best things in life were absolutely free. But no one appreciated a sky that was always blue; And no one congratulated a moon that was always new.

Greed is a hot topic today, stoked in part by investment broker Bernie Madoff's 50-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, the Wall Street collapse, the AIG scandal, and the bursting of an overinflated housing ...

The Oxford English Dictionary defines greed as “a strong desire for more wealth, possessions, powers, etc. than a person needs”. Its counterpart, the Cambridge English Dictionary puts it thus: “a ...

(Based on a presentation at the “World Philosophy Day” Symposium, University of Peradeniya.) Planet Earth is in peril due to global warming and overconsumption of its resources, two factors that ...

The illogical nature of investor psychology could fuel the next stage of the stock market rally, potentially pushing prices beyond fair-value range, according to Patrick Galley, manager of the ...

Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money--investing, personal finance, and business ...

We have already looked at some possible causative factors for the existence of greed and corruption, and we now turn to the nature and consequences of this veritable pestilence in the Nigeria of today ...