"Owning the Sun tells the story of one of the most contentious fights in human history: the legal right to control the production of lifesaving medicines. Medical science began as a discipline geared toward the betterment of all human life, but the merging of research with intellectual property...

The increase in unemployment to relatively high levels for Switzerland in the 1990s gave rise to two fears: First, that economic growth no longer has any effect on employment (jobless growth), and second, that the equilibrium rate of unemployment, i.e. the rate of employment that prevails even...

Am Beispiel historischer Personenkorporationen wird untersucht, welche moralischen Leitbilder hinter einem Fuersorgewesen traditionellen Zuschnitts stehen. Gewisse ethische Grundsaetze blieben ueber Jahrhunderte konstant. Weil die Korporationen die Unterstuetzung ihrer Beduerftigen aus...