Historically, the debate on climate change governance has been centered around a global treaty on carbon pricing, where burdens and benefits were to be shared according to standards of distributive justice. Recently, three alternative concepts have emerged in this discourse: polycentric climate...

Der Global Compact (GC) der Vereinten Nationen versteht sich nicht als Regulierungsinitiative, sondern als freiwilliges Lern- und Dialogforum fuer Corporate Citizenship. Dieser Beitrag entwickelt Vorschlaege, wie der GC diesem Anspruch (noch besser) gerecht werden kann. Hier geht es um...

(1) Sustainability requires learning processes both on the individual and on the societal level. Not only individual rule complience, but also the social processes of rule definition and rule implementation have to be re-adjusted in order to foster sustainable development on a world-wide scale....

In public discourse, there is a lively discussion about the ethics of markets and the ethics of business firms. This article approaches the debate from the perspective of an economic theory of morality. It gives answers to typical questions frequently asked by journalists. In doing so, the...

Confronted with a controversial dispute between liberalism and socialism over values, both Eucken and von Hayek developed an economic approach for giving scientific advice favoring a market system. Having learned from their line of argumentation, the author shows how economic analyses of...

According to the institutionalist position, institutional change is progressive to the extent that ceremonial behavioral patterns are replaced by instrumental ones. This article shows how the ordonomic research program operationalizes and explains the feasibility of progressive institutional...

Dieser Beitrag skizziert die grundlegenden Gedanken von Karl Homanns Programm einer oekonomischen Ethik. Zunaechst werden drei Rezeptionsschwierigkeiten identifiziert. Darauf aufbauend, wird in sieben weiteren Thesen erlaeutert, auf welche Problemstellung dieses Forschungsprogramm fokussiert ist...