"Why should the law care about enforcing contracts? We tend to think of a contract as the legal embodiment of a moral obligation to keep a promise. When two parties enter into a transaction, they are obligated as moral beings to play out the transaction in the way that both part…
"During the last thirty years we have witnessed sweeping changes in health care worldwide, including new and expensive biomedical technologies, an increasingly powerful and influential pharmaceutical industry, steadily increasing health care costs in industrialised nations, and …
"This book shows through argument and numerous policy-related examples how understanding moral philosophy can improve economic analysis, how moral philosophy can benefit from economists' analytical tools, and how economic analysis and moral philosophy together can inform public …
The authors discuss the connections between the ethical, economic, and entrepreneurial dimensions of a life well-lived.
Massive amounts of data on human beings can now be analyzed. Pragmatic purposes abound, including selling goods and services, winning political campaigns, and identifying possible terrorists. Yet "big data" can also be harnessed to serve the public good: scientists can use big d…
The most damning criticism of markets is that they are morally corrupting. As we increasingly engage in market activity, the more likely we are to become selfish, corrupt, rapacious and debased. Even Adam Smith, who famously celebrated markets, believed that there were moral cos…
Globalisierung, Menschenrechte und Wirtschaft: Stand und Perspektiven
by Bartels, Tessa, Brand, Michael, MdB, Kampeter, Steffen, Gubisch, Maria, Hermann, Brigitta, Prof. Dr, Villhauer, Bernd, Dr, Sadoun, Britta, Hußendörfer, Andreas, Nothelle-Wildfeuer, Ursula, Prof. Dr, Vasileva, Veselina, Kessler, Wolfgang, Dr, Noé, Elmar, Hauser, Paulina, Czerny, Ilonka, Dr, Naegele, Stefan, Prof. Dr, Diez, Karlheinz, Prof. Dr
Welchen Beitrag können Unternehmen leisten, damit Menschrechte sowie grundlegende Sozial- und Umweltstandards in den Ländern, in denen sie engagiert sind, gestärkt werden? Die Autor*innen diskutieren die Auswirkungen der Globalisierung interdisziplinär und gehen dabei auch auf d…
Welchen Beitrag können Unternehmen leisten, damit Menschrechte sowie grundlegende Sozial- und Umweltstandards in den Ländern, in denen sie engagiert sind, gestärkt werden? Die Autor*innen diskutieren die Auswirkungen der Globalisierung interdisziplinär und gehen dabei auch auf d…