How the car industry trumped banking for sociopathic corporate behaviour | Karel Williams
by Karel Williams from on (#1C7RF)
The emissions scandal has revealed the motor industry's stunning disregard for public health. Who knows how else they've been putting our lives on the line?Since the financial crisis of 2008, we have had multiple scandals about banks and bankers behaving badly - from the misselling of payment protection insurance and interest-rate hedges, to the rigging of Libor and foreign exchange rates, and corporate collusion in money laundering. The banking industry has been singled out for its unhealthy internal culture. But the car emissions scandal shows that sociopathic corporate behaviour is widespread, and its effects are even worse elsewhere.
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