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Ethik und Wirtschaftswissenschaft.
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Ethik und Wirtschaftswissenschaft
Editors:
Enderle, Georges
Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik
, Vol. 147
(1985)
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Table of Contents.
Section Title
Page
Action
Price
Vorwort
5
Inhaltsverzeichnis
7
Georges Enderle, St. Gallen: Einleitung
9
Jürgen Mittelstraß, Konstanz: Wirtschaftsethik als wissenschaftliche Disziplin?
17
1. Ökonomie und Ökonomismus
17
2. Historische Erinnerung
19
3. Ökonomische Rationalität
21
4. Wertfreiheit?
24
5. Wirtschaftsethik
27
Literaturverzeichnis
31
Oswald Schwemmer, Marburg: Ökonomische Rationalität und praktische Vernunft oder: Kann man ethische Grundsätze zu Prinzipien ökonomischer Systeme machen?
33
1. Das Einheitsverständnis der praktischen Vernunft und die abstrakte Allgemeinheit ihrer Prinzipie
33
2. Die ethische Frage nach der praktischen Vernunft
35
2.1 Das Gute und das Rechte, Verständlichkeit und Verbindlichkeit des Handelns
35
2.2 Theoretisches und praktisches Wissen, praktisches Wissen und praktische Einsichte
37
2.3 Resümee
41
2.3.1 Das Vernünftige: Moralische Erfahrungen und praktische Einsichte
43
2.3.2 Das Gute: Anerkennung fremder Subjektivität und die Pluralität praktischer Einsichte
44
2.3.3 Das Rechte: Die Sicherung anderer Subjekte und die Verbindlichkeit von Gesetze
45
3. Ethische Argumentationen in den Wirtschaftswissenschafte
46
3.1 Die „relative Autonomie“ der ökonomischen Rationalität
47
3.2 Die interne Begründung ökonomischer Organisationsformen und die Grenze ethischer Argumentatione
48
3.3 Die Existenzbedingungen ökonomischer Subjekte und der verbindliche Rahmen ökonomischen Handelns
49
3.4 Resümee: Eine Argumentationsregel für Rahmen-Entscheidungen in der Ökonomie
50
4. Nachbemerkung
52
4.1 Verbindlichkeit in der Kontingenz des Faktische
52
4.2 Moralische Rationalität des Handelns und normative Regulierung von Handlungs-Spielräume
53
Franz Böckle, Bonn: Anthropologie und Sachgesetzlichkeit im Dialog zwischen Moraltheologie und Wirtschaftsethik
55
1. These
56
2. These
59
3. These
62
4. These
65
C. Richard Barrett/Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Birmingham, U.K.: On Vague Preferences
69
1. Introductio
69
2. The Nature of Vagueness
70
3. Alternative Models of Vague Preference
71
3.1 Vague Preferences as Random Orderings
71
3.2 Probabilities for Pairwise Preferences
73
3.3 Fuzzy Preference Orderings
75
4. Choice on the Basis of Intrinsically Vague Preference
78
4.1 Fuzzy Preference and Choice
79
4.2 Stochastic Preference and Choice
81
5. Concluding Remarks
83
References
84
Günter Gabisch, Göttingen: Egoismus, Altruismus und ökonomische Effizienz
85
1. Problemstellung
85
2. Egoismus und Altruismus
86
2.1 Egoistische und altruistische Nutzenfunktio
86
2.2 Maximum der altruistischen Nutzenfunktion und geschlossene Indifferenzkurve
89
2.3 Altruistische und egoistische Indifferenzkurvensysteme
90
3. Ein Altruist und ein Egoist
96
4. Zwei Altruiste
103
4.1 Altruistische Interdependenz
103
4.2 Eigenschaften der Nutzenfunktion des B
104
4.3 Tauschgleichgewichte
105
Anhang
108
Literatu
108
Wulf Gaertner, Osnabrück: Einige Theorien der Verteilungsgerechtigkeit im Vergleich
111
1. Einleitung
111
2. Ein wenig Graphik, ein wenig Analysis
112
3. Utilitarismus à la Harsanyi
116
4. Rawls’ Theorie der Gerechtigkeit
118
5. Die Wohlfahrtsfunktion à la Nash
120
6. Zwischenbilanz
122
7. Die Aggregation individueller erweiterter Ordnunge
126
8. Einige Befragungsergebnisse
132
Anhang
134
Literaturverzeichnis
141
Horst Claus Recktenwald, Erlangen-Nürnberg: Ethik, Selbstinteresse und bonum commune. Eine Analyse der klassischen Ordnungstheorie Adam Smiths
143
1. Vorbemerkung und Zweck der Untersuchung
143
2. Ethik, Selbstinteresse und Gemeinwohl in Smiths Ordnungstheorie
144
2.1 Die Prinzipie
144
2.2. Die Natur des Selbstinteresses
146
2.3 Topik der Natürlichen Ordnung Smiths
147
2.4 Wie funktioniert der Regel- und Kontrollmechanismus in dieser Ordnung?
148
2.5 Ausgleich der Konfliktkräfte
151
2.6 Klassische Ordnungstheorie versus andere Systeme
153
3. Smiths Torso einer Theorie des Staates und der Institution – Elemente für ein Paradigma einer kollektiven oder öffentlichen Ordnung
154
3.1 Grenzen der Ordnungstheorie Smiths
154
3.2 Smiths analytischer Rahmen für ein fehlendes Paradigma
154
4. Kritische Würdigung in der Zusammenfassung
158
Literaturverzeichnis
160
Georges Enderle, St. Gallen: Sicherung des Existenzminimums für alle Menschen – eine Herausforderung für Ethik und Wirtschaftswissenschaft
163
1. Einleitung
163
2. Armut in der Dritten Welt und in Industrieländer
165
2.1 Ausmaß der Armut
165
2.2 Maßnahmen zur Armutsbekämpfung
170
3. Grundsätzliche Fragen der Definition, Erklärung und Bekämpfung von Armut
171
3.1 Armut als multidimensionales Problem
171
3.2 Der Berechtigungsansatz zur Erfassung der Armut
173
4. Sackgasse ethischer Fundierung der Armutsbekämpfung: Der Sozialdarwinismus
177
4.1 Charakterisierung des Sozialdarwinismus
178
4.2 Kritik des Sozialdarwinismus
180
5. Ansatz zur Begründung der Sicherung des Existenzminimums im Rahmen eines Ziel-Rechte-Systems
182
Literaturverzeichnis
186
Rupert Windisch, Göttingen: Vermögensmaximierung als ethisches Prinzip?
191
1. Einleitung
191
2. Kritik des utilitaristischen Standpunkts
193
3. Was bedeutet „Vermögen“?
211
4. Verhandlungsmärkte und die Auktion von Verfügungsrechte
215
5. Argumente für und wider die Ethik der Effizienz
222
5.1 Das Problem der Zustimmung
222
5.2 Das Problem des Zwanges
229
5.3 Das Problem der Erstausstattung mit Verfügungsrechte
234
5.4. Betrachtungen jenseits des Vermögensmaximierungsprinzips
238
Literaturverzeichnis
244
Gérard Gäfgen, Konstanz: Die ethische Problematik von Allokationsentscheidungen – am Beispiel des Ressourceneinsatzes im Gesundheitswese
249
1. Der ethische Aspekt in der Verwendung ökonomischer Ressource
249
1.1 Die Problemstellung
249
1.2 Die Ethik individueller Entscheidungsakte
251
1.3 Die Ethik der Wahlakte gesellschaftlicher Instanze
252
2. Maßstäbe indirekt-anonymer Mittelzuweisung an medizinische Handlungsbereiche und ihre Rechtfertigung
254
2.1 Verantwortliche Feststellung der Opferbereitschaft der Gesellschaft für gesundheitliche Zwecke
254
2.2 Verantwortliche Ermittlung der bestmöglichen gesundheitlichen Verbesserunge
256
3. Maßstäbe direkt-persönlicher Mittelzuteilung an einzelne Behandlungsfälle
258
3.1 Wertkonflikte auf der „klinischen“ Entscheidungsebene
258
3.2 Lösungsmöglichkeiten für tragische Wertkonflikte
260
3.2.1 Grundsätze vorbeugender Vermeidung eines moralischen Dilemmas
260
3.2.2 Grundsätze komparativer Abwägung der Behandlungswürdigkeit von Fälle
263
3.2.3 Grundsätze zur Vermeidung moralisch unberechtigter Entscheidunge
267
3.2.4 Ist ein konsistentes Gesamturteil möglich?
269
4. Die Barmherzigkeit der Unaufrichtigkeit
271
Mathematisch-grafischer Anhang
272
Teilnehmerverzeichnis des St. Galler Forschungsgesprächs über "Ethik und Wirtschaftswissenschaft"
275
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