Der neueste Band der Wirtschaftsethischen Perspektiven enthält die überarbeiteten Beiträge zweier Sitzungen des Ausschusses 'Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Ethik' im Verein für Socialpolitik. Dieser Ausschuss setzt sich aus Wirtschaftswissenschaftlern sowie Philosophen und Theologen zusammen....

Mancur Olson's theory of the decline of nations is path-breaking in political economics. It has been tested cross-sectionally in numerous empirical studies. We survey the existing results briefly, with a special focus on studies using the number of lobbies as an exogenous variable. Using data...

Entrepreneurial groups face a twinned challenge: recognizing new ideas and implementing them. Recent research suggests that connectivity reaching outside the group channels new ideas, while closure makes it possible to act on them. By contrast, we argue that entrepreneurship is not about...

What alternatives to rational choice theory do exist to explain economic phenomena? I argue that American pragmatism presents a viable alternative for the explanation of key economic incidences. First I illustrate the foundations of pragmatism using three problems regularly encountered in action...

Building on the results of a participant observation in a Chinese IT-sector company located in the northern part of China, this paper aims to clarify the nature of deception in markets. Contrary to the position of information economics and game theoretical approaches to trust, the paper argues...

Starting from the assumption that decision situations in economic contexts are characterized by fundamental uncertainty, the paper argues that the decision-making of intentionally rational actors is anchored in fictions. “Fictionality” in economic action is the inhabitation in the mind of an...

The paper discusses the role of restraints in the economic System. The constraints may relate to different agents of the economic-system so that one may envision the economic system as a Set of hierarchical constraints with each layer.of constraints applying to a more disaggregated level of...