Great post. IMHO, the answer is a definite Yes: ethics can be taught. The further removed from the humble worker the management becomes, the greater the risk

Great post. IMHO, the answer is a definite Yes: ethics can be taught. The further removed from the humble worker the management becomes, the greater the risk of unethical behavior. It's all about structure. The reason our economy (USA) busted in late 2008 is because the "management" class of people became too disembodied from the standard middle-class worker. The first problem is that Orwin neglects that the main goal of business education is to teach people management skills. So we can usefully teach people to devise management structures that minimize wrong-doing on the part of their employees, even if we can't change the characters of future managers themselves. It's not about changing "character" so much as allowing transparency in the process and what's expected. It's very interesting to observe who totally freaks out over policy and such that promotes transparency . . . cliques and class-stereotypes dissolve under the lens of transparency.