Published in la Revue française d’administration publique n°186
Conflicts of interest and regulatory capture raise major ethical questions likely to undermine the legitimacy of public policy. This paper argues that ethics courses in higher education can be structured to better empower future private and public decision-makers to deal with these issues. To the teaching of behavioral ethics based on reflexive postures must be added the teaching of epistemic ethics based on the analysis of the implicit assumptions of management techniques and tools. This evolution is crucial, as the current use of certain management methods inherited from the past lock us into ecologically unsustainable economic choices.
Key words:epistemic ethics, business ethics, capture, conflicts of interest
