kontraproduktiv. (4) Wer den Hunger in der Welt wirksam bekämpfen will, muss realwirtschaftlich ansetzen und dafür Sorge tragen, dass …This article holds and explains the following propositions: (1) The hunger crises in 2008 and 2010 have their causal …, would be counterproductive. (4) If we want to fight global hunger effectively, we have to take real-economy precautions to …

This short essay on financial speculation with agricultural commodities offers (1) a sur-vey of the real economy … factors that caused recent hunger crises, (2) an overview of academic research on the impact of index-based financial … speculation on agricultural futures markets, and (3) a discussion of political measures that are appropriate for im-proving global …

This short essay on financial speculation with agricultural commodities offers (1) a sur-vey on the real economy … factors that caused recent hunger crises, and (2) an overview on academic research on the impact of index-based financial … speculation on agricultural markets, and (3) a discussion of political measures that are appropriate – or inappropri-ate – for …

Dieser Beitrag bestimmt den systematischen Ort der Zivilgesellschaft aus der Perspektive einer ökonomischen Theorie der …

financial speculation on the markets for agricultural commodities. According to the current state of research, there is little … supporting evidence that the recent increase in financial speculation has caused either (a) of the price level, or (b) the price … claims that financial speculation has detrimental effects and should be forbidden, seems to be a false alarm. Those who are …

From the perspective of economic ethics, this article comments on the public debate about financial speculation with … to some peculiarities that are revealed by looking at the actual moral discourse on speculation from a historical … perspective. The fourth section analyz-es that civil society organizations can contribute to fighting hunger with running falla …