This paper builds on Khan’s work on Amazon’s antitrust paradox by transferring her normative framework to Apple Inc. It explores the company’s anti-competitive business practices and main antitrust concerns, as well as the currently proposed reform measures. The paper argues that one of...

The paper reviews the Equator Principles (EPs)-initiative in light of the recent ‘business and human rights'-debate. It shows that there is a substantial need for improving the EPs, especially, in terms of human-rights protection. In particular, the current ‘human-rights minimalism' of the...

The hypothetical conflict between self-interest, corporate interest and the common good is one of the hottest debated issues in business ethics. This paper focuses on a particular CSR-approach within the field of sustainable (project) finance which has the potential(!) – given that certain...

A partir de l’analyse par Foucault du néolibéralisme allemand (l’ordolibéralisme) et de sa thèse de l’ambiguïté, notre article introduit une distinction entre une éthique individuelle et une éthique réglementée. Nous réexaminons en particulier l’importance de l’éthique...

As recent newspaper headlines show the topic of patents/patent laws is still heavily disputed. In this paper I will approach this topic from a theoretical-historical and history of economic thought-perspective. In this regard I will link the patent controversy of the nineteenth century with...

The paper gives an overview of primate research and the economic-ethical 'lessons'2 we can derive from it. In particular, it examines the complex, multi-faceted and partially conflicting nature of (non-) human primates. Our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees and bonobos, apparently walk...