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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I thank Michelle Anderson for permission to use material published, in modified form, in my book Questionable Behaviour: Psychology’s Undermining of Personal Responsibility, Michelle Anderson Publishing: Melbourne, 2009, pp. 133-136.

Books and authors referred to in the Introduction:

Ambrose Bierce, ‘The Devil’s Dictionary’, in The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce, Citadel Press: New York, 1963.

Karel Capek, R.U.R (Rossum’s Universal Robots), Trans. P. Selver, Oxford University Press: London, 1925.

A.D. Hope’s comments on Patrick White’s The Tree of Man were published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 16 June 1956.

Benjamin Marks, Rodney Marks & Robert Spillane, The Management Contradictionary, Michelle Anderson Publishing: Melbourne, 2006.

William H. Whyte, The Organization Man, Simon & Schuster: New York, 1956.

I have borrowed, with permission, several lines from books written by my late friend, Thomas Szasz, especially:

Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, Anchor Doubleday, Garden City: New York, 1974.

Thomas Szasz, Heresies, Doubleday Anchor: Garden City: New York, 1976.

Finally, I especially thank Linden Dyason, entrepreneur extraordinaire, who had the courage to stage a satirical play about management conferences at a management conference.