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Thinking Allowed: Chess worlds, Competitive entrepreneurs

16/12/2015

Chess worlds, Competitive entrepreneurs

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Chess worlds, Competitive entrepreneurs

Laurie Taylor looks at chess communities and the competitive culture of the self-made men.

Chess players: Laurie Taylor takes a look inside the committed world of chess communities. Also, the competitive culture of the self-made men.

Chess players: Laurie Taylor talks to Gary Fine, Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University, and author of a study into the complex, committed and conflict ridden worlds of chess communities, both amateur and professional. They're joined by John Saunders, chess player and writer. Also, the competitive culture of the self-made man. Simon Down, Professor of Management at Anglia Ruskin University, discusses his study of businessmen whose talk of luxury cars and loads of cash represented a bid to gain a higher position in the hierarchy of their group.

Producer: Charlie Taylor.

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