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32An Economic Rationale for a Work and Savings Ethic? J. Buchanan’s Late Works and Business EthicsJournal of Business Ethics 66 (1): 43-51. 2006.This article discusses the possibility of an economic foundation for a work and savings ethic. In particular, James M. Buchanan has, in his late works, endorsed traditional 'Puritan' demands for working and saving more, while arguing that this is beneficial for all members of a society. I will question Buchanan's analysis of the 'Puritan' ethic both in normative and methodological respects before aiming at a constructive interpretation.
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98Civil Society and Tobacco Control in Indonesia: The Last ResortOpen Ethics Journal 7 (1): 11-18. 2013.In many countries around the world, the mechanisms of civil society have become very commonplace. Large companies are under constant pressure from civil society organizations to change their policies, strategies and approaches. The tobacco industry in particular is under heavy pressure in many parts of the world. Smoking has been prohibited in many public as well as private or semi-private areas in a large number of countries. However, while smoking as an addiction seems to be declining in some …Read more
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873Fundamentals of Order Ethics: Law, Business Ethics and the Financial CrisisArchiv für Rechts- Und Sozialphilosophie Beihefte 130 11-21. 2012.During the current financial crisis, the need for an alternative to a laissez-faire ethics of capitalism (the Milton Friedman view) becomes clear. I argue that we need an order ethics which employs economics as a key theoretical resource and which focuses on institutions for implementing moral norms. I will point to some aspects of order ethics which highlight the importance of rules, e.g. global rules for the financial markets. In this regard, order ethics (“Ordnungsethik”) is the complement o…Read more
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88Economic ethics, business ethics and the idea of mutual advantagesBusiness Ethics 14 (2): 108-118. 2005.Many traditional conceptions of ethics use categories and arguments that have been developed under conditions of pre-modern societies and are not useful in the age of globalisation anymore. I argue that we need an economic ethics which employs economics as a key theoretical resource and which focuses on institutions for implementing moral norms. This conception is then elaborated further in the area of business ethics. It is illustrated in the case for banning child labour.
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31Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics (edited book)Springer. 2013.The Handbook of Business Ethics: Philosophical Foundations is a standard interdisciplinary reference handbook in the field of business ethics. Articles by notable philosophers and economists examine fundamental concepts, theories and questions of business ethics: Are morality and self-interest compatible? What is meant by a just price? What did the Scholastic philosophers think about business? The handbook will cover the entire philosophical basis of business ethics. Articles range from historic…Read more
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43The Idea of a Contractarian Business EthicsIn Christopher Luetege (ed.), Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics, Springer. pp. 647--658. 2013.This chapter discusses two major approaches to business ethics which rest on the foundation of social contract theory: the contractualist position of Integrative Social Contracts Theory (ISCT) and the contractarian position of Order Ethics. Both are summarized and analyzed critically. It turns out that Order Ethics might remedy some defects of ISCT.
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Wettbewerb der SolidarsystemeJahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik (22): 329-348. 2014.Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, there is a wide consensus in society and science that a modern society cannot do without a market economy. The current political and academic debate revolves primarily around the question of what kind of social system a modern society needs. This question includes important normative as well as instrumental aspects. In this essay, we want to pursue the question of how modern societies can best achieve progress in both dimensions. The standard response — b…Read more
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41Business Ethics and Risk Management (edited book)Springer. 2013.This volume explores various aspects of risk taking. It offers an analysis of financial, entrepreneurial and social risks, as well as a discussion of the ethical implications of empirical findings. The main issues examined in the book are the financial crisis and its implications for business ethics. The book discusses unethical behaviour as a reputational risk (e.g., in the case of Goldman Sachs) and the question is raised as to what extent the financial crisis has changed the banks’ entreprene…Read more
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39Risk Taking and the Ethics of EntrepreneurshipIn Johanna Jauernig & Christoph Luetge (eds.), Business Ethics and Risk Management, Springer. pp. 3--14. 2013.
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71Order Ethics: Bridging the Gap Between Contractarianism and Business EthicsJournal of Business Ethics 136 (4): 687-697. 2016.Contract-based approaches have been a focus of attention in business ethics. As one of the grand traditions in political philosophy, contractarianism is founded on the notion that we will never resolve deep moral disagreement. Classical philosophers like Hobbes and Locke, or recent ones like Rawls and Gaus, seek to solve ethical conflicts on the level of social rules and procedures. Recent authors in business ethics have sought to utilize contract-based approaches for their field and to apply it…Read more
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90Experimental Ethics: Toward an Empirical Moral Philosophy (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2014.This volume gives an overview of the rising field of Experimental Ethics. It is organized into five main parts: PART I – Introduction: An Experimental Philosophy of Ethics? // PART II – Applied Experimental Ethics: Case studies // PART III – On Methodology // PART IV – Critical Reflections // PART V – Future Perspectives. Among the contributors: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Eric Schwitzgebel, Ezio di Nucci, Jacob Rosenthal, and Fernando Aguiar.
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33Order Ethics or Moral Surplus: What Holds a Society Together?Lexington Books. 2015.This book questions the often implicit assumption of many contemporary political philosophers that a society needs its citizens to adopt some shared basic qualities, views, or capabilities. Christoph Luetge provides an alternative view, which relies on mutual advantages as the fundamental basis of society
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Kaltblütig. Philosophie von einem rationalen Standpunkt.Festschrift für Gerhard Vollmer (edited book)Hirzel. 2004.
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45Experimentelle und Evolutionäre Ethik: Eine neue Synthese in der Moralphilosophie?In Matthias Maring (ed.), Bereichsethiken im interdisziplinären Dialog, Kit Scientific Publishing. pp. 163-179. 2014.Dieser Beitrag widmet sich der Darstellung des systematischen Zusammenhangs des mit dem Aufkommen der Experimentellen Philosophie neu entstandenen Teilbereichs der Experimentellen Ethik mit der spätestens seit den 1980er Jahren wieder populär gewordenen Evolutionären Ethik, einer Teildisziplin des philosophischen Naturalismus. Nach einer kurzen Charakterisierung beider ethischer Teilbereiche wird am Beispiel der metaethischen Frage nach der Objektivität moralischer Urteile dafür argumentiert, da…Read more
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8Wettbewerb im unternehmerischen HandelnIn Martina Plümacher & Günter Abel (eds.), The Power of Distributed Perspectives, De Gruyter. pp. 61-76. 2016.
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33The Ethical Dimension of the German Federal Constitutional Court's Decision Concerning Data RetentionOpen Ethics Journal 3 (1): 8-12. 2009.In March 2008, the German Federal Constitutional Court (GFCC) has passed an important, even though preliminary, decision concerning data retention. The GFCC’s decision accepts the storage of data, but greatly restricts their use to serious offenses like murder and organized crime. From an ethical point of view, it is particularly interesting to look at the justification given by the GFCC, which relies heavily on the argument that the “impartiality” (Unbefangenheit) of communication will be thor…Read more
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6Moralische Mehrwerte und soziale StabilitätArchiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 94 (3): 384-402. 2008.This article discusses the question whether modern societies require some kind of a social glue in order to remain stable. This social glue (termed the ‘moral surplus’) is regarded as a moral capacity or capability which goes beyond the individual quest for advantages and benefits. Four positions in contemporary social philosophy which postulate a moral surplus are discussed and criticized: J. Habermas, J. Rawls, D. Gauthier and K. Binmore. The conception of order ethics is outlined as an altern…Read more
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43Spillovers from Coordination to Cooperation – Evidence for the Interdependence Hypothesis?Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences 10 (4): 284-296. 2016.It has recently been proposed that the evolution of human cooperativeness might, at least in part, have started as the cooptation of behavioral strategies evolved for solving problems of coordination to solve problems with higher incentives to defect, i.e. problems of cooperation. Following this line of thought, we systematically tested human subjects for spillover effects from simple coordination tasks (2x2 Stag Hunt games, SH) to problems of cooperation (2x2 Prisoner’s Dilemma games, PD) in a …Read more
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34Economics in philosophy of science: Can the dismal science contribute anything interesting?Synthese 140 (3): 279-305. 2004.This paper draws a connection between recent developments in naturalized philosophy of science and the Buchanan research program in economics. Economic approaches in naturalized philosophy of science can be combined to form an economic philosophy of science. After giving an overview of some of these approaches, I lay out the fundamentals of the Buchanan research program. I argue that its main elements are a theory of interactions and a normative foundation in consensus which help to answer some …Read more
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12Fakten statt Normen?: Zur Rolle einzelwissenschaftlicher Argumente in einer naturalistischen Ethik (edited book)Nomos. 2004.'Ethik ist auf deskriptives Wissen angewiesen. Das ist nichts Neues: Bereits Aristoteles betont, die Ethik müsse berücksichtigen, dass der Mensch von Natur aus ein soziales Wesen sei. Wie viel Gewicht aber kann und sollte man dem deskriptiven Wissen in normativen Fragen zugestehen? Eine naturalistische Ethik hält es für möglich, dass deskriptives Wissen nicht nur Hilfsmittel für die Anwendung ethischer Normen sein, sondern einen großen Teil der bisher erforderlichen Normen ersetzen kann. Eine na…Read more
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57The Systematic Place of Morals in Markets [Letter]Science 341 (6147): 714. 2013.Comment on Armin Falk & Nora Szech "Morals and Markets", Science 340(6133), 707-711, 2013.
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Ordnungsethik - naturalistisch konzipiertIn Christoph Lütge & Gerhard Vollmer (eds.), Fakten statt Normen?: Zur Rolle einzelwissenschaftlicher Argumente in einer naturalistischen Ethik, Nomos. 2004.
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7Corporate Citizenship, Contractarianism and Ethical Theory: On Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics (edited book)Ashgate Pub. Company. 2008.This study provides a representation of the broad spectrum of theoretical work on topics related to business ethics, with a particular focus on corporate citizenship. It considers relations of business and society alongside social responsibility and moves on to examine the historical and systemic foundations of business ethics, focusing on the concepts of social and ethical responsibilities. The contributors explore established theories and concepts and their impact on moral behaviour. Together,…Read more
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Fakten statt Normen? Einleitung und ÜberblickIn Christoph Lütge & Gerhard Vollmer (eds.), Fakten statt Normen?: Zur Rolle einzelwissenschaftlicher Argumente in einer naturalistischen Ethik, Nomos. 2004.
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18Economics in Philosophy of Science: A Dismal Contribution?Synthese 140 (3). 2004.This paper draws a connection between recent developments in naturalized philosophy of science and the Buchanan research program in economics. Economic approaches in naturalized philosophy of science can be combined to form an economic philosophy of science. After giving an overview of some of these approaches, I lay out the fundamentals of the Buchanan research program. I argue that its main elements are a theory of interactions and a normative foundation in consensus which help to answer some …Read more
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153Ordnungsethik als übergreifender methodischer Ansatz zur Analyse von bereichsethischen FragestellungenIn Matthias Maring (ed.), Bereichsethiken im interdisziplinären Dialog, Kit Scientific Publishing. 2014.Ziel dieses Papiers ist es die Ordnungsethik – einen bereichsethischen Ansatz, der derzeit vor allem für wirtschaftsethische Fragestellungen benutzt wird – als eine universelle Methode zur Analyse von bereichsethischen Fragestellungen vorzustellen. Um das Vorhaben handhabbar zu machen, muss es in zweierlei Hinsicht eingeschränkt werden. Zum einen kann es sich hier natürlich nicht um eine voll ausgearbeitete Methodologie für die Analyse von bereichsethischen Fragestellungen handeln, sondern nur u…Read more
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