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Developing an Ecosystemic Approach to Live Better in a Better World: A Global Voice for Humanity Survival in the 21st Century

Pilon, André Francisco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

and economic institutions. An ecosystemic approach is posited along the four dimensions of being in the world (intimate …, encompassing culture, education, politics, economics, ethics, environment and the quality of life. …

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Humanistic Science of Jewry (Judaism as Humanistic Science/Judentum als Geisteswissenschaft)

Ternyik, Stephen I. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The humanistic science of Jewry is discussed from the empirical and historical viewpoint of Jewish economics and ethics …

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Strategies for the maintenance of natural capital

Spash, Clive L.; Clayton, Anthony M. H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995

Economic models cannot give us the information society needs to define the set of possible future scenarios facing the … world. Thus "optimal" economic plans are susceptible to being overwhelmed by feedbacks of which humans are ignorant as … capital: Motivations and methods. In Space, Place and Environmental Ethics, eds. A. Light & J.M. Smith, 143-173. Lanham …

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The marketing spirit from the perspective of moral values

Dumea, Andrei Cosmin; Mariciuc, Dragos Florentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Economic theory and practice, in general, and marketing, in particular, involve a cultivation of an entrepreneurial and mercantile atittude, the willing to win and to speculate any business opportunity. Not infrequently, was questioned the ethical nature of any commercial approach, the morality...

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Big data, privacy, and trusted web: What needs to be done

Helbing, Dirk; Balietti, Stefano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This perspective paper discusses challenges and risks of the information age, and the implications for the information and communication technologies that need to be built and operated. It addresses ethical and policy issues related with Big Data and how procedures for privacy-preserving data...

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Distribution of responsibility, ability and competition

Graafland, J.J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

This paper considers the distribution of responsibility for prevention of negative social or ecological effects of production and consumption. Responsibility is related to ability and ability depends on welfare. An increase in competition between Western companies depresses their profitability,...

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Modelling the trade-off between profits and principles

Graafland, J.J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

Corporations discover that social responsibility pays off. However, sometimes doing what is ethical will prove costly to a company. The purpose of this article is to clarify this trade-off by developing an economic model that describes the choice between profits and principles. The model is used...

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Precarious Residents: Migration Control, Membership and the Rights of Non-Citizens

Gibney, Matthew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper examines the situation of a subgroup of non-citizens found in virtually all contemporary states, what I call “precarious residents”. Precarious residents can be defined as non-citizens living in the state that possess few social, political or economic rights, are highly vulnerable...

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Moral Behavior in Stock Markets: Islamic finance and socially responsible investment

Pitluck, Aaron Z. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper addresses the puzzle of why the inclusion of non-financial social justice or religious criteria by professional fund managers has been so popular in Malaysia and yet has had to date relatively little influence in the United States stock market. Drawing from over 125 ethnographic...

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Golden Rule of Forecasting: Be conservative

Armstrong, J. Scott; Green, Kesten C.; Graefe, Andreas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper proposes a unifying theory of forecasting in the form of a Golden Rule of Forecasting. The Golden Rule is to be conservative. A conservative forecast is consistent with cumulative knowledge about the present and the past. To be conservative, forecasters must seek all knowledge...

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