Sustainability and entropy are concepts more than simply relating to environment and physical systems of energy dissipation, respectively. In the moral, social and co-integrated socio-scientific planes of human experience sustainability is essentially the positive action and response between the...

Passion - in the sense of fervent commitment to action - and compassion - understood as sensitive openness for social and ecological concerns - are not a sure formula for business success. Whether social or ecological entrepreneurs, who find themselves under pressure from market competition,...

In this paper, we critically assess common perceptions of work to inform current debates on work in ecological economics from a moral economy perspective. Due to veiled moral assumptions, work is usually uncritically conceived as (1) a productive activity (2) that satisfies consumer demand, (3)...

Dieser Aufsatz geht aus einer wirtschaftsethischen Perspektive der Frage nach, inwiefern es einen Ressourcenfluch gibt und mit Hilfe welcher institutionellen Vorkehrungen gegenwärtig versucht wird, armen Staaten, die über reiche Rohstoffvorkommen verfügen, eine nachhaltige Entwicklung zu...

In this research, we demonstrate that business sustainability can be a model to foster in order to reach real development, as it is shown that business sustainability has both an ethical and economic logic. Even though, from an ethical point of view, sustainability can be well-founded on human...

This paper addresses the crucial role the individual plays for sustainability against the backdrop of the ethical dimension of sustainability. We discuss the relevance of moral selfhood as the basis for sustainability and develop a model of selfhood for sustainability based on Buddhist virtue...