Why Businessmen Are More Honest than Preachers, Politicians and Professors

"Businessmen interested in long-run survival are more honest in their professional dealings than are many other groups in society—not 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 politician’s constituents, a professor’s students, and a preacher’s congregants." Paper by Dwight R. Lee.