ABSTRACT
In May 2002, the economics and financial magazine Fortune, known for its yearly list of the world’s “500 largest companies,” published an article on dyslexia, the “linguistic disorder” common to a great number of businesspeople over recent years. It is estimated that about 20 percent of the population of the United States might be affected by some degree of dyslexia. This percentage is particularly over-represented among executives. Months after the burst of the first great crisis in the economy of knowledge, this “corporate anomaly” has become a stimulating field of research, one more engaging than the delinquent normativity of the executives of Enron, WorldCom, and of all those companies systematically using scams and lies in order to secure success in the 1990s. Confronted with the crisis of the delegitimized executives, corrupted by the financial world at the expense of innovation, emergent capitalism needed an anthropologic shock treatment in order to define the profile of the new Schumpeterian entrepreneur. 1
