Connections add value

15 October 2010Social capital is good economics too, writes Andrew Leigh in the Australian Financial Review

ONCE A YEAR, Roy Morgan runs a pollsters’ beauty pageant, asking respondents to rate the ethics and honesty of various professions. This year, just 16 per cent gave business executives a rating of ‘high’ or ‘very high’. This places CEOs on par with federal MPs, and only a smidgin above the lowest-ranked professions such as car salesman, real estate agents and journalists…

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Illustration: from the cover of Andrew Leigh’s new book, Disconnected.

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