Format:
1 online resource (500 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780521877961
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9780511384936
Content:
A highly original work that progresses through a series of rational and philosophical arguments to address foundational issues concerning the relationship between ethics and the market economy. It will be of interest to all scholars and advanced students of business ethics, economics, and social and political philosophy
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Translator's note -- Introduction: orientation in economic-ethical thinking -- Part I Fundamental concepts of modern ethics and the approach of integrative economic ethics -- 1 The phenomenon of human morality: the normative logic of interpersonal relations -- 1.1 The moral disposition as part of the conditio humana -- (1) The inescapability of our moral feelings -- (2) The indisputability of our moral consciousness -- 1.2 Morals and ethos as two sides of lived morality -- 1.3 Modern ethics and the problem of relativism -- 1.4 The humanistic core of the moral principle: the normative logic of interpersonal relations -- (1) The vulnerability and need for protection of the human subject status -- (2) The capacity for imaginative role-taking -- (3) The interpersonal reciprocity of moral claims and rights -- (4) The rational generalizability of the moral principle of reciprocity -- 1.5 The developmental stages of moral consciousness -- 2 The moral point of view: philosophical developmental lines of rational ethics -- 2.1 The Golden Rule and the Judaeo-Christian commandment to love one's neighbour -- 2.2 The standpoint of the impartial spectator (Adam Smith) -- 2.3 The categorical imperative (Immanuel Kant) -- 2.4 The rule-utilitarian generalization criterion -- 2.5 Discourse ethics -- (1) Understanding-oriented attitude -- (2) Interest in legitimate action -- (3) The three-stage concept of responsibility -- (4) Public discourse as the 'site' of morality -- 3 Morality and economic rationality: integrative economic ethics as the rational ethics of economic activity -- 3.1 Economic ethics as applied ethics? -- (1) Application of discourse ethics? -- (2) Economic ethics as applied ethics under market conditions? -- 3.2 Economic ethics as normative economics?
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(1) Explanation of 'moral behaviour' instead of economic ethics? -- (2) Normative economics as economic ethics? -- 3.3 The integrative approach: economic ethics as critical reflection on the foundations of economic reason -- (1) Critique of 'pure' economic reason -- (2) The idea of socio-economic rationality -- (3) Public discourse as the site of the ethical-political integration of economics -- Part II Reflections on the foundations of economic ethics I: a critique of economism -- 4 'Inherent necessity' of competition? A critique of economic determinism -- 4.1 The origins of modern market economy: the calvinistic ethos as a context of motivation -- 4.2 The systemic character of modern market economy: the 'free' market as a coercive context -- 4.3 The partiality of inherent necessity and the economic-ethical problem of reasonable expectation -- (1) The 'paradigmatic' art of dealing methodologically with inherent necessity -- (2) The 'pragmatic' search for empirical room to manoeuvre -- (3) The reconstruction of the problem of inherent necessity as a problem of reasonable expectation -- 5 'Morality' of the market? A critique of economic reductionism -- 5.1 Historical and doctrinal background I: the prestabilized harmony in the economic cosmos (classical period) -- 5.2 Historical and doctrinal background II: the utilitarian fiction of common good (early neoclassical period) -- (1) Ethical hedonism -- (2) The utilitarian principle -- (3) The market-economic maximum theorem -- 5.3 Methodological individualism and the normative logic of mutual advantage (pure economics) -- (1) Methodological and normative individualism -- (2) The Pareto criterion -- (3) Two-stage contract theory -- Part III Reflections on the foundations of economic ethics II: rational economic activity and the lifeworld -- 6 The question of meaning: economic activity and the good life
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2nd Stage: the co-responsibility of the private economy at the branch and regulatory political level (republican corporate citizenship) -- 10.3 Deliberative corporate policy-making: the 'stakeholder dialogue' as a site of business morality -- (1) Stakeholder relationships as the site of the corporate-ethical discourse on legitimacy and reasonableness -- (2) Stakeholder rights as an institutional consequence of stakeholder relations from a corporate ethical perspective -- 10.4 Elements of an integrative ethical programme for corporations -- Bibliography -- Index of subjects -- Index of names
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6.1 The elementary sense of economic activity: securing the means of human subsistence -- 6.2 The advanced meaning of economic activity: furthering the abundance of human life -- (1) The guiding idea of an economy of abundance -- (2) Symptoms of the consumerist reversal of meaningful life -- 6.3 The discovery of personal meaning under conditions of competitive self-assertion -- 7 The question of legitimation: economic activity and the just social life -- 7.1 Fundamental moral rights as the ethical-political basis of legitimation -- 7.2 The well-ordered society and the conditions of legitimate inequality: on John Rawls's principles of justice -- 7.3 Economic citizenship rights as the basis of real freedom for all -- (1) The basic needs approach -- (2) The basic capabilities approach -- Variant I: Unconditional basic income -- Variant II: Negative income tax -- Variant III: Defined working lifetime -- Variant IV: A second labour market -- Part IV A topology of economic ethics: the 'sites' of morality in economic life -- 8 Economic citizen's ethics -- 8.1 The basic problem of civic ethicsliberal society and republican virtue -- 8.2 Deliberative politics: the public sphere as the site of economic citizens' shared responsibility -- (1) Argumentative clarification of preferences -- (2) Deliberative procedural legitimation -- (3) Consensus-based regulation of dissent -- (4) The public constitution of the private sphere -- 8.3 Professional and private life as sites of economic citizens' self-commitment -- (1) The economic citizen as an institution citizen -- (2) The economic citizen as a critical consumer -- (3) The economic citizen as a critical investor -- 9 Regulatory ethics -- 9.1 The basic problem of regulatory ethics: market logic and 'vital policy' -- (1) Paleoliberalism -- (2) Neoliberalism -- (3) Ordoliberalism and the social market economy
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9.2 Deliberative order politicsthe market framework as a site of morality - whose morality? -- (1) The democracy deficits of ordoliberal regulatory ethics -- (2) The economism of democratic institutional politics of the neoliberal type -- (3) Deliberative order politics and its constitutive normative tasks -- 9.3 The global question: competition of national market frameworks or supranational sites of regulatory morality? -- (1) Global competition between industrial locations and regulatory frameworks - the great neo-(paleo-) liberal experiment -- (2) Searching for the sites of supranational regulatory politics -- 10 Corporate ethics -- 10.1 The basic problem of corporate ethics: 'profit principle' and legitimate business activity -- (1) Profit orientation as a motive for entrepreneurship: the personal pursuit of profit -- (2) Profit orientation as the moral duty of the entrepreneur: the capitalistic entrepreneurial ethos -- (3) Profit orientation as a systemically determined inherent necessity: the requirement of profit as 'not open to debate' -- (4) Profit orientation as a regulatory-political rule of the game: the normatively constituted profit principle -- (5) The profit principle as a methodical as-if construction -- 10.2 Instrumentalist, charitable, corrective or integrative corporate ethics? -- (1) Instrumentalist corporate ethics: a contribution to entrepreneurial success -- (2) Charitable corporate ethics: ethics 'post festum' -- (3) Corrective corporate ethics: situative self-limitation of the entrepreneurial pursuit of profit -- (4) Integrative corporate ethics: fundamental critical reflection on the entrepreneurial pursuit of profit -- 1st Stage: The entrepreneurial task of value creation (business integrity)
Additional Edition:
Print version Ulrich, Peter Integrative Economic Ethics Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,c2008 ISBN 9780521877961
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