World leaders have given the reduction of global poverty top priority. And yet it persists. Indeed, in many countries whose governments lack either the desire or the ability to act, poverty has worsened. This book, a joint venture of a Harvard professor and economist with the international...

Based on economic ethics, this paper reflects on and aims to improve the semantics of responsibility. The traditional concept of responsibility is threatened with erosion when responsibility is attributed to an actor who is unable to exercise individual control over the outcome of his actions....

Dieser Aufsatz formuliert einen anreizethischen Beitrag zur Aufklärung der Verantwortungssemantik: Das traditionelle Verantwortungskonzept droht zu erodieren, wo Verantwortung einem Akteur zugeschrieben wird, der über die Folgen seines Handelns keine Ergebniskontrolle ausüben kann. In der...