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Wirtschaftswissenschaft und Ethik.
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Wirtschaftswissenschaft und Ethik
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Hesse, Helmut
Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik
, Vol. 171
(1989)
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https://doi.org/10.3790/978-3-428-46327-5
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413
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Economic theory & philosophy
Ethics & moral philosophy
Table of Contents
Section Title
Page
Action
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Vorwort
5
Inhaltsverzeichnis
7
Karl Homann et al.: Wirtschaftswissenschaft und Ethik
9
I. Für eine stärkere Bearbeitung wirtschaftsethischer Fragen in Forschung und Lehre
10
II. Versuch einer Ordnung wirtschaftsethischer Forschungsansätze
13
III. Perspektiven der Forschungsansätze
19
1. Individualethik oder Sozialethik?
19
2. Wirtschaftswissenschaft als Markttheorie oder als allgemeine Theorie menschlichen Verhaltens?
26
3. Suche nach einem geeigneten Modell von Interdisziplinarität
27
Franz Böckle, Bonn: Moraltheologie und Wirtschaftsethik Versuch einer Verhältnisbestimmung
35
I. Glaube und Ethik
35
II. Erfahrung und Vernunft
38
III. Rationalität und Normativität
42
Georges Enderle, St. Gallen: Das Lomé-III-Abkommen: Eine Strategie zur Überwindung der Armut in Entwicklungsländern?
47
I. Einleitung
47
II. Methodische Fragen der Beurteilung des Lomé-III-Abkommens
48
III. Inhaltsanalyse
52
1. Ziele und Grundsätze der Zusammenarbeit und der darin involvierte Entwicklungsbegriff
53
2. Ernährungssicherung durch Ernährungsstrategien und Nahrungsmittelhilfe
57
3. Maßnahmen zugunsten der ärmsten Länder und Bevölkerungsgruppe
62
IV. Zur wirtschaftsethischen Beurteilung
66
Literaturverzeichnis
69
Günter Gabisch, Göttingen: Konzepte und Implikationen der Gleichverteilung
71
I. Problemstellung
71
II. Verteilung ohne Produktio
71
III. Verteilung mit Produktio
74
1. Verteilungskonzepte
74
2. Substitution von Arbeitszeit durch Freizeit
75
IV. Empirische Ergebnisse
84
Literaturverzeichnis
84
Gérard Gäfgen, Konstanz: Der Wandel moralischer Normen in der Entwicklung der Wirtschaftsordnung: Positive Erklärung und ethische Folgerunge
85
I. Das Problem: Die Wandelbarkeit und Pluralität ethischer Orientierunge
85
II. Ordnungspolitische Gestaltung, Ethik und gesellschaftliche Gesamtlage
88
III. Prozesse der Entstehung und Veränderung ethischer Norme
92
1. Möglichkeiten einer Erklärung der Normgenese
92
2. Der Bedarf an Normen und die normgenerierenden Situatione
95
3. Normbildende und -erhaltende Prozesse
99
IV. Sozialethische Gestaltung als dynamische Aufgabe
103
1. Universelle Grundwerte bei variablen Umständen?
103
2. Veränderte Moral als Lösung für veränderte Problemstellungen?
105
3. Pluralität der Wertvorstellungen und einheitliches Ethos?
106
Wulf Gaertner, Osnabrück: Untergrundwirtschaft, Steuerhinterziehung und Moral
109
I. Hintergrund
109
II. Ein mikroökonomisches Modell „optimaler“ Steuerhinterziehung
112
III. Steuerhinterziehung im gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhang: Ein Gefangenendilemma
117
IV. Einige wirtschaftspolitische und wirtschaftsethische Überlegunge
124
Literatu
128
Eilert Herms, Mainz: Theoretische Voraussetzungen einer Ethik des wirtschaftlichen Handelns. F. A. von Hayeks Anthropologie und Evolutionstheorie als Spielraum wirtschaftsethischer Aussage
131
I. Methodologische Bestimmung von Status und Funktion einer sozialwissenschaftlichen Theorie der spontanen Genese von Interaktionsordnunge
136
II. Das Wissen über Regeln der individuellen Verhaltenswahl
145
III. Das Wissen über Systeme von Regeln der Interaktion (Interaktionsordnungen)
153
IV. Das Wissen um Regeln, nach denen Interaktionsordnungen zustande kommen (evolutionär selegiert werden)
161
V. Die Reichweite des Einflusses von individuellem Verhalten auf die Entstehung und Entwicklung von Interaktionsordnunge
170
VI. Die Geltungsweise von Regeln des Verhaltens
174
VII. Determinismus
176
VIII. Hayeks Konzeption vom Geltungsmodus aller Regeln der menschlichen Reaktionswahl schließt die Möglichkeit einer Sozial- und Wirtschaftsethik aus
182
IX. Elementare Möglichkeitsbedingungen einer Sozial- und Wirtschaftsethik
187
X. Faktoren der spontanen Genese von Interaktionsordnungen, die einer ethischen Betrachtung zugänglich sind
189
Helmut Hesse, Göttingen: Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen als Gegenstand der Wirtschaftsethik
195
I. Problemstellung
195
II. Individualethische Überlegunge
196
III. Sozialethische Überlegunge
199
1. Zur Frage nach einer einheitlichen, weltumfassenden Rahmenordnung
199
2. Internationale Arbeitsteilung
201
3. Internationale Koordination der Stabilitätspolitik
205
4. Zum internationalen Verteilungsproblem
206
a) Zur ethischen Begründung einer internationalen Einkommensumverteilung
207
b) Was heißt internationale Verteilungsgerechtigkeit?
209
c) Effizienzverluste durch Umverteilung
213
IV. Zusammenfassung
214
Karl Homann, Witten/Herdecke: Die Rolle ökonomischer Überlegungen in der Grundlegung der Ethik
215
I. Problemstellung
215
II. Grundzüge einer ökonomischen Begründung der Moral
221
1. Die Moral als öffentliches Gut
222
2. Die Moral als Kapitalgut
227
3. Die Verallgemeinerung des Arguments von Hobbes
231
III. Folgerungen aus der ökonomischen Begründung der Moral
232
IV. Schlußbemerkung
239
Walter Kerber S.J., München: Sittlich handeln unter dem Druck ökonomischer Sachzwänge
241
I. Gegenstand der Wirtschaftsethik
241
II. Eine Philosophie des Unternehmens
244
III. Betriebliche und ethische Kostenrechnung im Konflikt
248
1. Eine ethische Nutzen-Kosten-Analyse
248
2. Humanisierung der Arbeitswelt
250
3. Rationalisierung
251
4. Leistungsschwache Mitarbeite
252
5. Umweltschutz und Rohstoffverbrauch
252
6. Wettbewerb
253
IV. Praxis der Gemeinwohlverantwortung
255
Peter Koslowski, Hannover und Witten/Herdecke: Nebenwirkungen (Externalitäten) als Problem der Wirtschaftsethik
259
I. Sozialethik der Wirtschaft: Ethik als Korrektiv von Marktversagen, Religion als Korrektiv von Ethikversage
259
II. Preisbildung und Preisgerechtigkeit
261
III. Individualethik der Wirtschaft: Güterabwägung
266
IV. Das Gesetz der gewollten Nebenwirkungen in der Unternehmung
268
V. Entscheidungstheorie und Ethik
270
Werner Lachmann, Mainz: Ethik und Soziale Marktwirtschaft Einige wirtschaftswissenschaftliche und biblisch-theologische Überlegunge
277
I. Problemstellung
277
II. Der Markt aus ethischer und aus wirtschaftlicher Sicht
278
1. Die Doppelnatur der Moral für das wirtschaftliche Handel
278
2. Effizienz – die marktliche Leistung, bedürfnisethisch gesehe
281
3. Ethische Bewertung des Wettbewerbs und des Maximierungsprinzips
283
4. Gesinnungsethische Voraussetzungen einer funktionierenden Sozialen Marktwirtschaft
285
III. Der soziale Aspekt im Konzept der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft
288
1. Die Notwendigkeit einer Redistributionspolitik
288
2. Mögliche ökonomische und ethische Folgen der Redistributionspolitik
288
3. Ethische Voraussetzungen einer erfolgreichen Redistributionspolitik
290
IV. Die Soziale Marktwirtschaft – ein ethisches Paradoxon?
292
V. Die Problematik staatlicher Wirtschaftspolitik – dargestellt an den Schwierigkeiten der praktischen Sozialpolitik
294
VI. Mögliche Lösungsansätze: Moral oder institutionelle Absicherung
295
1. Endogene Ethik: Wiederbelebung der ursprünglichen Subsidiarität
295
2. Exogene Ethik: Moral als gesellschaftlicher Input
297
3. Wie schafft man Moral? Das biblische Ethos
298
VII. Resumee: Komplementarität von Individualethik und Sozialethik
299
Literaturverzeichnis
300
Heiner Müller-Merbach, Kaiserslautern: Ethik ökonomischen Verhaltens. Eine Lehre der verantwortungsbewußten Unternehmensführung in marktwirtschaftlichen Gesellschaftsordnunge
305
I. Gesellschaftswissenschaften im interdisziplinären Verbund
305
II. Technisches, pragmatisches und moralisches Handeln bei Kant
306
III. Die Übertragung der Kantischen Dreiteilung auf die Betriebswirtschaftslehre
309
IV. Ansätze einer Ethik ökonomischen Verhaltens
312
V. Organisation von gesellschaftlichen Systemen aus ökonomischer Sicht
316
VI. Gestaltung gesellschaftlicher Systeme und Interdisziplinarität
318
VII. Betriebswirtschaftliches Forschungs- und Lehrprogramm für eine Ethik ökonomischen Verhaltens
319
VIII. Individualethik – eine Frage des Menschenbildes
322
Birger P. Priddat, Hamburg: Allokation und Würde. Über die Denkschrift der Evangelischen Kirche Deutschlands „Leistung und Wettbewerb“
325
I. Das glaubensethische Fundament der Denkschrift
326
II. Die Sozialontologie der Starken und Schwache
328
III. Ökonomische Implikationen der evangelischen Sozialethik
330
IV. Würde und Allokatio
335
Hermann Sautter, Frankfurt: Weltsicht, Moral und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung
339
I. Einführung
339
II. Weltsicht und Moral als Einflußfaktoren der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung
342
1. Von der Bedarfsdeckungsmoral zur ethischen Legitimierung bzw. Neutralisierung des Erwerbsstrebens
342
2. Die Stimulierung zu einem weltzugewandten Handeln durch ein säkularisiertes Weltbild
346
3. Die Ermutigung zu einem zweckrationalen Handel
349
III. Moral und Weltsicht unter dem Einfluß der wirtschaftlichen Eigendynamik
351
1. Zur Problematik einer Autonomisierung des Erwerbsstrebens
351
2. Zu den Grenzen des modernen Wirklichkeitsverständnisses
357
3. Zur Rationalität der Mittel und zur Irrationalität der Zwecke
359
IV. Das Dilemma der Entwicklungs-Zusammenarbeit
361
Harald Scherf, Hamburg: Wirtschaftsethik evangelisch? Zur Studie der Kammer der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland für soziale Ordnung: „Solidargemeinschaft von Arbeitenden und Arbeitslosen“. Sozialethische Probleme der Arbeitslosigkeit
367
Wolfgang Schmitz, Wien: Währungsethik – eine tragende Säule der Wirtschaftsethik
373
I. Der wissenschaftstheoretische Standort der Währungsethik
373
1. Besteht ein Bedarf an Währungsethik?
373
2. Geldethik, Finanzethik und Währungsethik
374
3. Der Gegenstand der Währungsethik
375
4. Die Methoden der Währungsethik
376
5. Die Adressaten währungsethischer Postulate
377
6. Grenzen der Währungsethik
378
II. Die ordnungspolitische Bedeutung der Währungsethik
379
1. Die soziale Ordnungsfunktion des Geldes
379
2. Voraussetzung zur Sozialfunktion des Marktes
381
3. Die internationale Ordnungsfunktio
384
4. Die Währungsethik stützt gesunde Währungsordnung
385
III. Grundlegende währungsethische Postulate
386
1. Die Allokationsfunktion des Geldes: Als einziger „Bezugschein“ und frei verfügba
386
2. Die Stabilität des Geldwertes
389
3. Die Konvertierbarkeit der Währunge
390
4. Freizügigkeit des internationalen Kapitalverkehrs
391
5. Die Solidarität der Währungsbehörde
393
6. Die sozialethische Relevanz des Wechselkursregimes
394
7. Kein währungsethisches Postulat: die „volkswirtschaftlich richtige“ Kreditverteilung
395
IV. Die Verschuldungskrise der Dritten Welt – ein Lehrstück für weltweite Ordnungspolitik
396
1. Die ethische Dimension währungspolitischer Fehlentscheidunge
396
2. Fehlverhalten vieler Beteiligte
396
3. Ansatzpunkte zur Lösung
397
4. Lehrstück für weltweite Ordnungspolitik
398
5. Der harte Kern: Die konkreten währungsethischen Frage
399
Hans-Jürgen Vosgerau, Konstanz: Normative Aspekte internationaler Migratione
401
I. Einführung
401
II. Ein Modell vollkommener Freizügigkeit
403
III. Öffentliche Güter und externe Effekte als ökonomische Begründungen für das Entstehen von Staatsgrenze
405
IV. Die Verschiedenartigkeit der Mensche
407
V. Intertemporale Aspekte
408
VI. Ergänzungen und Ausblick
411
VII. Literaturhinweise
412
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