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This paper builds on the author's earlier work (1991, 1994, 1997a), which examines issues of agency in the Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations, by arguing that the emphasis, in debates about the so-called Adam Smith problem, on construing questions about human nature in terms of motives to...
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Anwendung auf Begriffe des öffentlichen Diskurses – Freiheit, Solidarität, Verantwortung, Gerechtigkeit, Nachhaltigkeit und … normative categories such as justice, solidarity, responsibility, sustainability, and corporate citizenship. Based on this …
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die Frage der Verantwortung im gesamtwirtschaftlichen System (Kapitel 2) und beschäftigt sich dann mit der Verantwortung … von einflussreichen Rollen und Subsystemen der Wirtschaft. Insbesondere wird diskutiert, was Verantwortung für die …
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Wirtschaftsethik fragt, wie sich das Eigeninteresse wirtschaftlicher Akteure für moralische Anliegen in Dienst nehmen lässt. Die …Dieser Beitrag skizziert das ordonomische Forschungsprogramm einer ökonomischen Theorie der Moral und stellt die … orthogonalen Positionierung zu den geläufigen Trade-Off-Vorstellungen eines Wertekonflikts zwischen Eigeninteresse und Moral. Die …
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One votes from self-interest or from a sense of duty. Voting from self-interest requires there to be some chance, however small, that one's vote swings the outcome of an election from one political party to another. This paper is a discussion of three models of what that chance might be: the...
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The weak rationality principle is not an empirical statement but a heuristic rule of how to proceed in social sciences …-foundation and, therefore, employ the rationality assumption in economic models. Then, with reference to the ?bounded rationality … a part of the rationality assumption. We conclude with some remarks on handling the problems of ?free will? as well as …
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We derive a natural definition of responsibility in a formal model where employees care for their career prospects: A … are equilibria where either a single agent or no agent is responsible for a task but joint responsibility never arises …
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We develop and formalize a utilitarian notion of responsibility for sustainability which is inspired by Singer's (1972 …) principle and the Brundtland Commission's notion ofsustainability (WCED 1987). We relate this notion of responsibility to …. Sustainability and responsibility for sustainability are equivalent if and only if sustainability is feasible. If it is not, there …
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Individuals with a preference for keeping moral obligations may dislike learning that voluntary contributions are socially valuable: Such information can trigger unpleasant feelings of cognitive dissonance. I show that if initial beliefs about the social value of contributions are sufficiently...
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