ABSTRACT
Such a position is particularly useful for the ethicist who wishes to be part of modem trends and directions while still doing ethics. In this way the ethicist does not spoil the recipe for the managerialism reformers or spit into the managerialism reform wind. Ethicists, like most others, wish to be associated with the excitement and momentum of reform, and they dislike being regarded as retrograde defenders of the status quo-or worse, the shrill voice suggesting that we have failed to learn the lessons of history. If, for example, one argues the position that managerialism itself is inherently unethical and has a propensity for cormption regardless of the adoption of safeguards, it leaves the ethicist defending the status quo, including all the corruption that is part of it-a particularly vulnerable position to defend.
