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This article sheds light on the way in which activities such as the production and consumption of wealth are conceptualized, interpreted and put into practice within quietist Salafist communities in France. Unlike their jihadi and politicized counterparts, quietist Salafis in lands where Islam is the minority religion are required to emigrate to where Islam is majoritarian. As this article highlights, however, migrating is not necessarily a physical process. What is interesting to underline is that most French Salafists do not perform the Hijra, and favor, for instance, economic strategies allowing them to break with the rest of French society and live in 'isolation' rather than leaving France for good. Although framed as a religious duty, physical migration has been rare among French Salafist communities, whereas other forms of social rupture are emerging. The article explores in detail such economic strategies on the basis of the acceptance of neo-liberal principles allowing for what one can call an internal process of migration/isolation from French society.

"Dem ökonomischen Denken und Handeln liegen Vorstellungen des Guten zugrunde, die selten diskutiert, sondern meist unhinterfragt vorausgesetzt werden. Nachdem die Notwendigkeit des Guten für das Rechte geklärt ist, werden zunächst die in der Standardökonomik weit verbreiteten Vorstellungen des Guten analysiert. Die Hauptaufgabe besteht allerdings darin, die verschiedenen Ideen des Guten im politischen Liberalismus und insbesondere in der integrativen Wirtschaftsethik zu diskutieren und auf ihre Erweiterbarkeit hin zu einer Wirtschaftsethik des guten Lebens zu untersuchen." (Autorenreferat)

"Arthur Richs zweibändiges Meisterwerk Wirtschaftsethik (1984/ 1990) wird im Kontext der internationalen Entwicklung der Wirtschaftsethik seit den achtziger Jahren gewürdigt. Nach einer kurzen Übersicht der internationalen Entwicklung werden acht besonders wichtige Aspekte von Richs Werk für die Grundlegung der Wirtschaftsethik und für eine human-reformierte und ökologisch-regulierte Marktwirtschaft aufgezeigt." (Autorenreferat)

This book presents an integration of the analysis of symbo- lic, ethical, and cultural meaning into the theory of econo- mic action. It demontrates that the scope of economics is widened by the inclusion of the cultural and ethical determinants of economic action and by bringing the ethical and cultural factors back into economics and management science. The book's contribution to business ethics and economic ethics lies in its distinctly continental European background which is often overlooked in current discussions of economic theory. The papers in this volume point to a mutual interpenetration of economics and ethics in a new synthesis of "ethical economy

"Various international initiatives call on business schools to direct their research and teaching so that
business ethics and corporate social responsibility gain a greater, even systematic status. This article
presents two arguments as to why business schools have an interest in responding constructively to these
claims. First, the societal environment for business has changed dramatically, thus creating new challenges
for companies. Second, economic and business ethics can be developed on grounds that are compatible
with the theoretical rational-choice paradigm underlying economics and much of management
science. Moreover, an "ordonomic" approach to business ethics can also generate valuable contributions
for a strategic management of stakeholder relations." (author's abstract)

This book examines the concept of moral economy originally established by E.P. Thompson, focusing on the impact of religious norms on economic practice. With each chapter discussing a different empirical case study, the interrelations of the economy and religion are explored from antiquity through to the 20th century. The long-term trajectory and comparative perspective allows for moral economy to be seen in relation to ancient Greek commerce, medieval pawn-broking, Christian and Jewish economic ethics, urban social politics during the Plague, the Jesuit mission in Paraguay, the Ottoman Empire, religion in modern American capitalism, and Catholic attitudes toward taxation. This book aims to provide insight into how moral thinking about the economy and economic practice has evolved from a long historic perspective. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in economic history and cultural economics. Tanja Skambraks is Assistant Professor at the University of Mannheim. Martin Lutz is Assistant Professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin

Based on analyses of the essays written by Max Weber on China, India, ancient Judaism and also on the dispersed material about Islam, Eastern Christianity and Occidental Christianity, this book examines the economic ethics of Asian and Christian traditions and their corresponding legal systems. Drawing also on Weber's methodology (particularly the concept of adequate causation), the author reveals that the nature of Asian religions as well as the nature of customary and other not formally rational laws in Asian cultures could not lead to modern capitalism out of their own sources, although capitalism could be adopted from the outside. The culture of the Occident, upon which capitalism is based, is revealed to consist of a double rationalisation: the formal rationality of the exterior circumstances of life (administrative and legal) and the innerworldly practical rationality of the inner motivations of the Protestants, supported by a goal-oriented rational technology.