The Charitable Profit Arrangement (the CPA program) has created an innovative new Social Fundraising tool serving the Donor and nonprofit worlds. It serves as an intermediary that facilitates fundraising for charities by allowing Donor's to Share the profits from their financial accounts with...

This article examines the rise of a new consumer that inaugurates, along with enterprises and institutions, a model of citizenship based on responsibility and greater awareness of emerging global challenges. Citizens and enterprises are now becoming partners of a collective commitment that aims...

An extensive literature on reputation signaling has focused on the desire for positive reputation. In our paper we provide field and lab evidence that some individuals are averse to any form of reputation; this aversion correlates with gender in a prosocial setting. We formalize our hypotheses...

Some papers, for reasons which remain at least partially obscure, leave a persistent trace in intellectual history. Such is the case with Keynes’ paper “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”, although it never attracted much attention within the economic profession, besides...

"Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes." (Rochefoucauld) Consistency and constancy are hallmarks of Odysseus' behavior with respect to the Sirens. The usual reading is that he is a general model of the way all self-control situations should be handled. The alternative...

Um das Verhaeltnis von Unternehmens- und Konsumentenethik naeher zu bestimmen, schlaegt dieser Beitrag vor, das Zusammenwirken von Produzieren und Konsumieren unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Befaehigung zur gemeinsamen Verantwortungsuebernahme fuer eine nachhaltige Entwicklung neu zu konzipieren....

Der Artikel verbindet Ergebnisse der Lebensstilforschung mit den moraltheoretischen Voraussetzungen einer Verantwortung von Konsumenten als integraler Bestandteil der Wirtschaftsethik. Die Bedeutung von Schichtfaktoren wie Einkommen und Bildung sowie Grundorientierungen der sozialen Milieus in...

Some papers, for reasons which remain at least partially obscure, leave a persistent trace in intellectual history. Such is the case with Keynes’ paper “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”, although it never attracted much attention within the economic profession, besides...

This paper reports on using television and internet communication as a means of engaging the least interested sections of society with respect to environmental problems and sustainability issues. The theory behind developing such communication is described and the importance of social...

That institutions matter is widely accepted among economists and so are social norms as an important category of informal institutions. Social norms matter in many economic situations, but in particular for markets. The economic literature has studied the interrelation between markets and social...