Robert Fritzsch provides an institutional economic analysis of the Great Recession. The author shows that institutions matter as determinants of crisis resilience - however in a different way than predicted by the prominent theories of Olson (1982) and North, Wallis, Weingast (2009), as the...

Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction: views on economic crises in the 21st century -- Chapter 2. A review of the history of the economy and its concepts: change is a constant -- Chapter 3. Keynes' and Minsky's macroeconomics -- Chapter 4. Outlook on the transformation of the market economy and its...

Wachsende ökonomische Instabilität und zunehmende staatliche Stabilisierung kennzeichnen die Entwicklung der kapitalistischen Marktwirtschaft seit der großen Weltwirtschaftskrise des vergangenen Jahrhunderts. Dieses Buch verfolgt den Weg der Krisen und der staatlichen Maßnahmen zu ihrer...

1. You Can’t Live (Well) Without Business Ethics -- 2. Overview of Business Ethics -- 3. Primitive Trade -- 4. Ancient Trade in the Near East -- 5. Greek Society -- 6. Roman Society -- 7. Jewish and Christian Attitudes -- 8. Islam and Business Ethics -- 9. Medieval Business Ethics -- 10....

1.What is ‘Fair’: different opinions -- 2.Ethics: Human rights and basic needs -- 3.Concepts derived from the Human Rights: Living Wage and Living Income -- 4.Fair Wages, what does it mean? -- 5.Are market and equilibrium prices ethical? -- 6 Living Wage, Living Income and Fair Price further...

1. Ethics of Management -- 2. Ethics of Capitalism -- 3. Ethics of Marxism -- 4. Business ethics and ethical leadership -- 5. Japanese management system -- 6. Scandinavian and Yugoslav management system.

Transkulturalität und Diversität von Moralkultur -- Die konzeptionelle Vorarbeit: Moral, Kultur und Ökonomie -- Das Konzept: Moralkapital -- Die Operationalisierung: Moralkapital und wirtschaftliche Performance -- Moralkapital, Transkulturalität und unternehmerische Praxis

This book presents a variety of discussions from different countries about regulations and applications of ethics in business practice. It demonstrates how Ethics, both in the world of business and in academic life, is consistently a central and unavoidable issue that institutions must devise...