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...

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...

Work stoppages have become commonplace in American professional sports. Whether it takes the form of a strike or a lockout, a work stoppage, or the threat thereof, accompanies nearly all labor disputes between owners and players. This is hardly surprising, though, because the current system for...

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 developed...

Many social democrats believe that the failure of past government interventions in social and economic life can be explained by the absence of social capital, and that government must intervene to create that social capital. This argument is comprehensively undermined in this Hobart Paper. The...

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 va-lidity of the performance principle as a...

Das insbesondere in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften dominierende oekonomische Menschenbild wird haeufig wegen seiner Vereinseitigung des Eigennutzes und wegen der zugrunde liegenden Rationalitaetsannahmen kritisiert. Aufbauend auf einer Reflexion dieser beiden Kritiklinien wird in diesem Beitrag...

Das Spannungsverhaeltnis von Patientenwohl und wirtschaftlichen Zielstellungen im Gesundheitswesen ist schon laenger Gegenstand von Debatten, die verschiedene Ebenen und (ExpertInnen-)Kreise durchziehen: Sei es als PatientIn, interessierte BuergerIn und BeitragszahlerIn, Sachverstaendiger oder...

Ausgehend von einer Kritik am Konzept der „inequity aversion“ wird versucht herauszuarbeiten, wie die situationsspezifische Anpassung moralischer Orientierungen vonstatten geht. Dabei wird auf ein Konzept aus der Moralentwicklungspsychologie zurueckgegriffen (den „happy victimizer“), das...