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        <title><![CDATA[Books - The Raven Foundation]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Making Religion Reasonable Violence Unthinkable and Peace a Possibility]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Too Big To Fail: Mimetic theory at work, but not fully recongnized]]></title>
                                <link>http://www.ravenfoundation.org/rf-reviews/too-big-to-fail</link>
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                                The book is indeed full of mimetic behaviors and keywords (e.g. resentment, reputation, contagion, panic keep
recurring throughout the text) and vivid examples of scapegoating, I would just recall the sacrifice of Joe Gregory
(former Lehman COO) to buy Lehman some breathing space and the voluntary humiliation that Hank Paulson self-inflicted himself  in front of Nancy Pelosi to save the TARP deal and probably the world economy in the middle of Congressional panic.

However, the author fails to give explicit recognition of the mechanism at work shaping the players behaviors and actions, even though the whole book is built around finding a rational explanation for the "Lehman scapegoating" event.
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                <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
                <pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 09:55:16 -0400</pubDate>
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