Teaching morality and values in business schools will not tame such behavior, but changing the incentives that reward short-term profits and lead bankers and traders to take excessive risks will. The bankers and traders of the latest crisis responded rationally to compensation and bonus schemes that allowed them to assume a lot of leverage and ensured large bonuses, but that were almost guaranteed to bankrupt a large number of financial institutions in the end.
商学院开几门伦理课，绝不会令这种行为有所收敛，只有扭转“短线盈利能带来奖赏”的错误激励机制才能抑恶扬善，因为正是那种扭曲的机制才令银行家和交易员过度冒险。在危机的酝酿阶段，银行家和交易员的行为，只不过是对报酬和分红方案的理性反应而已——当时盛行的报酬方案允许他们采取高杠杆，并报之以高额分红，而这种勾当最后注定会搞垮一大批金融企业。