Businessmen interested in long-run survival are more honest in their professional dealings than are many other groups in societynot because they are more virtuous, but because they face more effective constraints. Their customers can usually detect and avoid deception more easily than can a politicians constituents, a professors students, and a preachers congregants.
Why Businessmen Are More Honest than Preachers, Politicians, and Professors
By Dwight R. Lee
This
article
appeared in
the Winter 2009/10 issue of The Independent Review.
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