Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP), this paper assesses the relationship between life satisfaction and religious practice. The main new result here is longitudinal. It is shown that individuals who become more religious over time record long term gains in life...

Economists praise the efficiency of the price mechanism in allocating scarce resources. Others, however, often reject it as unfair. In this study, we investigate the extent to which economists also differ from non-economists in how they value the fairness of the price system, and examine how...

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP), this paper assesses the relationship between life satisfaction and religious practice. The main new result here is longitudinal. It is shown that individuals who become more religious over time record long term gains in life...

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP), this paper assesses the relationship between life satisfaction and religious practice. The main new result here is longitudinal. It is shown that individuals who become more religious over time record long term gains in life...

As a social science, economics studies social interactions. What distinguishes it from other social science disciplines is, firstly, its focus on interactions involving the management of scarce resources and, secondly, its conception of itself as generating traceable, verifiable findings that...

Dieser Beitrag wendet sich an Lehrer und ist daher primär didaktisch orientiert. Das Ziel besteht darin, einige Kernüberlegungen aus dem Forschungsprogramm einer "ökonomischen Theorie der Moral" so vorzustellen, dass sie für den Schulunterricht adaptiert werden können. Mit Hilfe des...

Dieser Beitrag enthält ein Interview zur Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik sowie zwei konzeptionelle Anhänge: Das Interview befasst sich mit der wachsenden Bedeutung der Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik für die Managementforschung und -ausbildung. Zudem diskutiert es Methoden sowie Inhalte...

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP), this paper assesses the relationship between life satisfaction and religious practice. The main new result here is longitudinal. It is shown that individuals who become more religious over time record long term gains in life...

After defining Social Entrepreneurship for the German context, the above named paper gives a compact analysis of the determining factors for Social Entrepreneurship in Germany. Therefore it applies the analytic framework used by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) to Social...

In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this purpose, we have run a survey among officers of the German military who are enrolled in different courses of study (such as economics) at the University of the German Federal Armed...