Pour ma part, il me semble que l’on n’arrivera jamais à contraindre le comportement d’un homme par quelques lois explicites, il les contournera toujours. La dissuasion efficace est sociale, je suspecte. Un demi-siècle en arrière, le dirigeant était modeste et honnête, parce que c’était ce qu’attendait de lui la société. Une citation un peu ancienne de Paul Krugman :
the section in Galbraith’s New Industrial State (1967) in which he discusses the possibilities of corporate executives using their position to enrich themselves at investors’ expense:
But these are not the sorts of thing that a good company man does; a generally effective code bans such behavior. Group decision-making ensures, moreover, that almost everyone’s actions and even thoughts are known to others. This acts to enforce the code and, more than incidentally, a high standard of personal honesty as well …