issue is whether a CBA should cover all aspects in a decision or rather leave out certain issues (such as justice) so that …

This paper presents a philosophical discussion of the ethical foundations of economic competition, based in large part …, notwithstanding its positive effects in terms of efficiency and innovativeness, ontologically neglects the "other-ness" of individuals …. The fundamental factor in the neglect is the "consumerist" orientation of competitive capitalism through which even small …

mining investment of more than M 5 billion will lead to increased diamond exports, higher GDP, and faster growth in tax …

questions are summed up in the concept “quality of life”. This paper uses recent research projects that determine this parameter … to examine the spatial distribution of quality of life in Germany. For this purpose, an Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis … is conducted which focuses on identifying statistically significant (dis-)similarities in space. An initial result of …

Dieser Aufsatz erweitert den Kenntnisstand der ökonomischenForschung bezüglich regionaler Lebensqualitäten in … administrativen Gebietseinheiten. Dadurch werden Probleme räumlicher Autokorrelation umgangen. In Übereinstimmung mit der … Arbeitsmarktregionen eng mit Unterschieden in regionalen Ausstattungen mit (quasi-)öffentlichen Gütern verbunden sind, welche sich …

This article tries to explain the main criticism that the recent Nobel Price in Economics, Amartya Sen, has made to the … ethic and methodological basis of utilitarian theories in economics. In the first parte of the work the concepts which laid … theory in the world, the neoclassic one. It begins with Mandeville until Pareto, going through Smith, Bentham, Mill and …

individual at the end of life. The Palliative Care Yardstick, has been proposed as an alternative. In this paper, I argue that … the QALY should not be abandoned as an outcome measure in end of life and palliative care populations and suggest possible … not supported by current evidence and how in some cases the abandonment of the QALY framework would lead to an …

developments in behav-ioural economics, ethics and neurobiology, it argues for the extension of this concept by con-sciously or … Entscheidungstheorie durch Ethik und Neurobiologie in Frage gestellt wird. Nach dem in ihm entwickelten Verständnis von Unternehmensethik … by ethics and neurobiology. It argues for an understanding of busi-ness ethics which sees the economic agents’ freedom of …