ABSTRACT
Why should it be that issues of company conduct and personal conduct in business seem now to be higher on the public agenda? Is it because our behaviour is now worse than it used to be? Well, in due course I will give you an interesting example of nineteenth-century behaviour which, in my view, is very similar to the sort of behaviour found today. So I doubt behaviour has changed that much. It seems to me that there are a number of strands to be identified in answer to this first question.
