Product Description: The present volume seeks to inaugurate a new discussion of two schools of historical thought by social scientists, economists, and phi­ losophers in the English language. The tradition of the "Historical and Ethical School of Economics" established by Friedrich List, Wilhelm Roscher, and Gustav Schmollerand the tradition of historism in the hu­ manities represented by Wilhelm Dilthey are examined not so much for their own historical interest as for their potential systematic contribu­ tion to the contemporary debates on business ethics, economics, sociol­ ogy, and philosophy...read more

Product Description: This book unites the perspective of business ethics with approaches from strategic management, economics, law, political science, and with philosophical reflections on the theory of Corporate Citizenship and New Governance. It examines an innovative topic.

Product Description: The Ethics of Banking analyzes the systemic and the ethical mistakes that led to the crisis. It keeps the middle ground between excusing all failures by the argument of a systemic crisis not to be taken responsibility for by the financial managers and the moralistic reproach that only moral failure is at the origin of the crisis...read more

Product Description: The welfare state has been developed first and in its largest extent in North-Western Europe, in Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Sweden. It is also in these countries where the crisis and financial problems of the welfare state are felt first...read more

Product Description: The transformation process from the planned to the market economy in the East Central European countries is a laboratory of applying economic theory and business ethics to an enormous historical transition in the economic and political system...read more

Product Description: The social market economy forms a fundamental theory of the market economy and an integrated economic and ethical theory of the economic order in which the political and societal conditions for the working of the market are included in the theory of the market economy...read more

Product Description: Economics makes the incommensurable commensurable by money prices. On the other hand, there are varieties of goodness like the ethical that seem not to fit into the scale of prices of economics, but cannot be neglected in economizing...read more

Product Description: This book presents an integration of the analysis of symbo- lic, ethical, and cultural meaning into the theory of econo- mic action. It demontrates that the scope of economics is widened by the inclusion of the cultural and ethical determinants of economic action and by bringing the ethical and cultural factors back into economics and management science...read more

Product Description: Managing as a form of human action has an inherent link with philosophy, which is also concerned with choosing the right action and the best way to lead our lives. Management theory and philosophy can join forces in epistemology (the philosophy of knowledge), ethics, and cultural theory...read more

Product Description: Europa ist dabei, den Nationalstaat zu }berwinden und einen }bernationalen Bundesstaat zu entwickeln. Die wirtschaftli- che Vereinigung Europas ist weit vorangeschritten, seine kulturelle, geistige und soziale Einigung h{lt jedoch mit der wirtschaftlichen nicht Schritt...read more

Product Description: Religions are the largest communities of the global society and claim, at least in the cases of Islam and Christianity, to be universal interpretations of life and orders of existence. With the globalization of the world economy and the unity of the global society in the Internet, they gain unprecedented access to the entire human race through modern means of communication...read more

Product Description: German Idealism develops its philosophy of history as the theory of becoming absolute and as absolute knowledge. Historism also originates from Hegel's and Schelling's discovery of absolute historicity as it turns against Idealism's philosophy of history by emphasizing the singular and unique in the process of history...read more

Product Description: This is the fifth and last volume of the EXPO-Discourses of the World Religions (World Exposition EXPO 2000, Hannover, Germany). The series aims at a deeper understanding of the similarities and differences between Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in their theological and philosophical propositions...read more

Product Description: Die technologische Revolution des Internets, ihre epochale Bedeutung für die Wirtschaft und ihre ethische Bewältigung sind das Thema dieses Buches. Seine Beiträge zum Verstehen des Internets reichen von der Frage der Umwälzung oder gar Abschaffung der Eigentumsrechte durch die Allzugänglichkeit und Nicht-Rivalität des "Konsums" von Information im Internet bis zu Fragen der Rückwirkungen des Internets auf den Begriff der Person...read more

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Product Description: John Maynard Keynes wrote to his grandchildren more than fifty years ago about their economic possibilities, and thus about our own: "I see us free, there­ fore, to return to some of the most sure and certain principles of religion and traditional virtue - that avarice is a vice, that the exaction of usury is a misde­ meanour...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Die Autoren, Mitglieder des Ausschusses für Wirtschaftsethik der Allgemeinen Gesellschaft für Philosophie in Deutschland, stellen die Frage, wo die Philosophie in der Wirtschaftsethik bleibt. Sie zeigen, daß die Philosophie den entscheidenden Beitrag zur Entwicklung der wirtschaftsethischen Theoriebildung leistet, jedoch die interdisziplinäre Integration mit der ökonomischen Theorie und die institutionelle mit den wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultäten noch vorantreiben muß...read more

The theory of capitalism and of the economic order is the central topic of the German economic tradition in the 20th century. Capitalism has not only been the topic for Marxist economics and for the Frankfurt School but also for the Historical School and for the postmarxist theory of capitalism in Ordo- and Neo-Liberalism as well as in Solidarism. The question of the foundations of the economic order of the market economy and of capitalism as well as the problem whether a third path between capitalism and social­ ism is possible occupied this tradition from the Historical School to Ordo­ Liberalism and the theory of the social market economy. The theory of capitalism and of the social market economy as well as the critique and reform developed in this theoretical tradition is important for the theory of economic systems as well as for today's problems of the eco­ nomic order. Its relevance for the present world economy is visible in the discussions whether there exist different models of capitalism and whether they can be described as the Anglo-American and as the Rhenish model of capitalism influenced by the thought of the German economic tradition. Michel Albert, the author of this classification, gave the key-word in his book Capitalism against Capitalism. The papers of this book can help to clarify this debate by giving a first hand introduction to some of the main economic thinkers of capitalism. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The approaches to economic ethics and business ethics in Continental Europe and those in America show considerable differences but also a shared interest in turning business ethics into a subject relevant and useful for business practice as well as for the philosophical debate on ethics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The theory of evolution and Neo-Darwinian biological theory extend their analysis in sociobiology from the life sciences and the animal societies to human societies. Sociobiology as a unifying theory of the social interaction within and between species has led to an integration of economic analysis into biology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ist die Maximierung des Shareholder Value oder der Kapitalrendite der Unternehmenseigner das entscheidende Kriterium des Unternehmenserfolgs und wie verhält es sich zu den anderen Kriterien des Erfolgs des Unternehmens wie Beschäftigung, Konsumentenbefriedigung, etc...read more