In less than fifteen years, the world has experienced the worst financial crisis since the 1930’s, the worst global pandemic since the flu in 1918, and the largest war fought since the Second World War. This manuscript argues that these crises are not isolated events. The main thesis is that...

This book is about the construction of reality. The central aim of this study is to understand how gravity works and how it may be focused and manipulated. While I do not have an answer to this question, the discoveries along the way have been worth collecting into a single volume for future...

This paper addresses the puzzle of why the inclusion of non-financial social justice or religious criteria by professional fund managers has been so popular in Malaysia and yet has had to date relatively little influence in the United States stock market. Drawing from over 125 ethnographic...

Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...

Criticism of the compensation practice of bonus payments was a key element of the public debate concerning the causes and consequences of the global financial crisis (GFC). Along with the criticism of bonuses in the financial and banking sector, the validity of the performance principle as a...

Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...

In der Tradition der europaeischen Unternehmensethik ist der Charakter der Akteure ein grundlegender und alles dominierender Zurechnungsmodus fuer tugendhaftes Handeln. Die psychologische und voelkerkundliche Diskussion einer „Charakterkunde“ in der zweiten Haelfte des 19. Jahrhunderts hat...

Die experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung kann eingesetzt werden, um kausale Einflussfaktoren von Verhalten unter kontrollierten Rahmenbedingungen zu identifizieren. Insbesondere ermoeglicht sie Einsichten ueber Verhaltenstendenzen in moralischen Dilemmata wie z. B. Situationen, in denen...

Dieser Beitrag bestimmt das Verhaeltnis zwischen Verhaltensoekonomik und Ordnungsethik. Er entwickelt in acht Thesen das Argument, dass ein methodisch reflektiertes Homo Oeconomicus-Modell unverzichtbar wichtige Beitraege zu Forschung und Lehre zu leisten vermag: zur Erforschung der situativen...

Nach der zentralen Forderung der Ordnungsethik muessen moralische Normen durch formale und informelle Institutionen, die moralisches Handeln anreizkompatibel machen, implementiert werden. Als eine minimale (normative) Bedingung muessen diese Institutionen in der Lage sein, den homo oeconomicus...