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We outline a narrative of changing attitudes to social responsibility by managers in the finance industry, in response to bonus-based compensation crowding out other-regarding preferences (Simpson, 2016). We attribute part of the motivation crowding out to their mode of thinking, namely simple utility maximization, conceived of as a norm promoting individual financial reward. We decompose the resultant loss in consumer surplus into the sum of a cost of commitment incurred by managers when they voluntarily eschew monopoly (Sen, 1976) plus the deadweight loss to the economy when they do not. Disciplining managers unwilling to pay the cost of commitment by competition policy runs into serious difficulties which are prominent in the finance industry: the longevity of poorly performing firms, information opacity and rent ubiquity. The practical difficulties of competition policy make it correspondingly important to directly address the moral motivations of bank executives.
