The Socionomist

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  [Article] Murder and the Market

  Along with reintroduction of Robert Prechter’s socionomic theory of how society creates serial killers and when they are most likely to strike, contributing writer, Professor Ken Olson, disentangles the relationship between murder rates and the stock market.
   
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  [Article] The Coming Collapse of the Marijuana Prohibition

  History shows that mood governs society’s tolerance for recreational drugs. A rising social mood produces prohibition of substances such as alcohol and marijuana; a falling mood produces tolerance and relaxed regulation. In the case of alcohol, the path from prohibition to decriminalization became littered with corruption and violence as the government waged a failed war on traffickers. Eventually, as mood continued to sour, the government finally capitulated to public cries for decriminalization as a means to end the corruption and bloodshed.
   
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  [Article] A Browner Shade Of Green

  From its July 2008 all-time-high, the Continuous Commodity Index fell 47 percent and remains about 32 percent below its peak. The following timeline of headlines documents the subsequent environmental accidents and waning desire to save the environment:
   
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  [Article] A Socionomic View of Epidemic Disease

  Negative social mood increases stress and disrupts routines, sanitation, households, social relationships, and, ultimately, human immunity.
   
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  [Article] Sky High Construction? Not in Saudi Arabia or Dubai

  Commonly referred to as the Skyscraper Indicator, this study examines why impressive construction projects tend to start right after major peaks in social mood.
   
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  [Article] A Socionomic View of Epidemic Disease

  It’s widely believed that epidemics make people fearful, but as you will see in this report, socionomic causality better explains the data, which show that fearful people are more susceptible to epidemics.
   
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  [Article] Have We Seen The Peak In Radical Islam?

  In early March, Newsweek’s cover proclaimed, “Radical Islam Is a Fact of Life. How to Live With It.” Socionomist Mark Galasiewski believes that the headline probably marks the multi-year peak in Islamic extremism.
   
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  [Article] A Socionomic Study of Epidemic Disease

  Alan Hall’s two-part in-depth study, “A Socionomic Study of Epidemic Disease,” shows how negative social mood establishes conditions precipitating outbreaks of epidemic diseases. Part 1 explores a 600-year history of diseases in bear markets and how society becomes vulnerable. Part 2 focuses on the psychological and physiological mechanisms by which negative social mood compromises human immunity, charts illustrating the timing and similarity of epidemics to financial manias and more potential threats on the horizon.