Front Matter; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 Competition: Terminology and concepts; 2 The ethical role of competition; 3 Is life a see-saw? Zero-sum thinking and moderation; 4 Competition and ecology; 5 Competition and education; 6 Competition in health and nursing care; 7 Competition,...

Who was the greater economist--Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an economist. But Robert Frank, New York Times economics columnist and best-selling author of The Economic Naturalist, predicts that within the next century Darwin...

Recent decades have seen a sharp increase in financial competition, intensified by globalisation. Excessive risk-taking leading to inevitable business failures at times reached worrying proportions. A contributing factor arose from the complexities of the derivative and other new markets. This...

Dieser Beitrag nimmt kritisch Stellung zur Debatte um die gesellschaftliche Verantwortung von Unternehmen („Corporate Social Responsibility“, CSR). Die Hauptthese lautet, dass die Zuweisung von Unternehmensverantwortung darauf abzielen sollte, die Marktwirtschaft als System besser...