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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.

"In this article, it is argued that the (necessary) use of ethics theories in management studies, calls for
an explication and critical reflection over the values that are implied by them. Apart from the values
of the ethical theories themselves, the researcher inevitably introduces additional values that we characterise
as "values on the construction level of theory". This is demonstrated with the example of economic
ethics." (author's abstract)

Introduction (Martin Lutz and Tanja Skambraks) -- Part 1: Antiquity and Middle Ages -- Chapter 1.The Popular Morality of Ancient Greek Commerce (Moritz Hinsch) -- Chapter 2. Early medieval property transfers in favour of the church between religion and economy (Franziska Quaas) -- Chapter 3. Between Pietas and Usury. Dynamics of a Moral Economy in the Middle Ages (Tanja Skambraks) -- Chapter 4. Past the Limits of Usury: Jews and the Moral Economy of Moneylending in the Late Medieval German Territories (Aviya Doron) -- Part 2: Early Modern Period -- Chapter 5.The Moral Economy of Epidemics. Emergency, Charity and Poor Relief in Early Modern Italian Plague Regulations (Lorenzo Coccoli) -- Chapter 6. Fiscality, Debt, and Moral Economy: The View from Florentine Civic Chronicles (Giorgio Lizzul) -- Chapter 7. Moral Economists. The Jesuit Mission in Paraguay and the Idea of Economic Growth in Early Modern Times (David Bete & Philip Knäble, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) -- Chapter 8. Profit due to Christian behaviour. The Moral Economy of the Moravian Church in the 18th Century (Thomas Dorfner) -- Part 3: Modern Period.-Chapter 9. Negotiating Religion, Moral Economy and Economic Ideas in the Late Ottoman Empire: Perspectives of Peasants and the Intelligentsia (E. Attila Aytekin) -- Chapter 10. Leading a "simple" life in modern capitalism. The moral economy of Mennonite consumption in mid-20th century America (Martin Lutz) -- Chapter 11. Tax Morale in a Centralised Church: How Catholic Clergies Adapted Norms of Paying Taxes to Secular Institutions (1940s–1950s) (Korinna Schönhärl) -- Chapter 12."Resort City? Why what happened to Las Vegas, Sin City?": Suburban America, Religious Groups, and the Moral Economy of Gambling in Las Vegas, 1945-1969 (Paul Franke) -- Chapter 13.Reassessing Moral Economies. Concluding thoughts (Benjamin Möckel).

Chapter 1: Problem and Fundaments.-Chapter 2. Idea-historical foundations and dubious (standard) objections to cost-benefit analysis -- Chapter 3. Frictions on the application level: costs and benefits, discounting, uncertainty, fact base -- Chapter 4. Collision of the cost-benefit analysis with liberal-democratic basic principles and the claim of validity of law -- Chapter 5. Cost-benefit analysis without convincing theoretical basis -- Chapter 6. Remaining relevance of cost-benefit elements in balancing.

"Es wird untersucht, wieweit die von John Neville Keynes, dem Vater von John Maynard Keynes, stammende Unterscheidung von Volkswirtschaftstheorie, Wissenschaft von der Wirtschaftspolitik und Wirtschaftsethik heute noch sinnvoll ist und welche Aufgaben diesen Teildisziplinen der Volkswirtschaftslehre angesichts der Neuen Politischen Ökonomie und anderer jüngerer Entwicklungen zukommen sollen." (Autorenreferat)

Abstract. The writer [Dr. Preston Bradley] discovered Henry George through reading one of his great literary followers, Leo Tolstoy; later the author came to know intimately many prominent Single Taxers. The experiences convinced him that the basic economic ideas of George cannot be successfully challenged. As a religious leader, the writer believes that religion should never and cannot ever be separated from life. So he believes that the application of ethics to economic life is as religious as the statement of Christianity's oldest and most sacred creed. George formulated a reformed system for capitalism based on biblical morality, the highest ethical standards of the modern age and its most exalted insights. We live in an age of con‐tinuing economic crisis. We must infuse our moral and religious prin‐ciples into our economic system or we are lost. This is a responsi‐bility bequeathed us hy the wisest and best thinkers of the past, among the greatest of whom was Henry George.

Dieses Buch untersucht die Wirtschaftsethik asiatischer und christlicher Traditionen und die dazugehörenden Rechtssysteme. Es geht aus von Max Webers Texten über China, Indien und das alte Judentum sowie vom verstreuten Material über den Islam und östliche und westliche Christenheit, außerdem von seiner Rechtssoziologie. Mithilfe von Webers Methodologie (Begriff der adäquaten Verursachung) wird gezeigt, dass die Ethik asiatischer Kulturen, außerdem ihr Gewohnheitsrecht und ihr nicht formal rationales Recht Webers Meinung nach nicht von selbst zum modernen Kapitalismus führen konnten, obwohl er natürlich von außen adoptiert werden konnte. Die Kultur des Okzidents erscheint so als das Produkt einer doppelten Rationalisierung, der formalen Rationalität der äußeren Umstände (Verwaltung und Recht) und der praktischen Rationalität der inneren Motive der Protestanten, unterstützt durch zielorientierte Technologie

U ovom radu pokušali smo predstaviti ideju "integrativne gospodarske etike" Petera Ulricha sagledavajući je u kontekstu suvremenih etičkih strujanja, te je dovesti u vezu s novom paradigmom pluriperspektivnosti u okviru integrativne bioetike. Istraživanje smo bazirali na doprinosima Instituta za gospodarsku etiku u St. Gallenu (Švicarska), kojemu je začetnik i direktor sam Peter Ulrich. Usporedbe koje smo pokušali napraviti s idejom Hansa Künga Weltethos i Hansa Jonasa Princip odgovornosti trebale su nam pokazati kako je ideja integrativne gospodarske etike nastavak niza u okviru etičkih promišljanja o suočavanju s ozbiljnim problemima s kojima se susreće i susretat će se društvo i svijet. Ulrich traži odgovore na pitanje smislenosti našeg gospodarenja te koliko naše gospodarenje može biti opravdano u odnosu prema drugima, što bi bilo pitanje legitimnosti. Kao središnji izazov za integrativnu gospodarsku etiku i njezinu refleksiju svakako se može postaviti pitanje o okolišu i neadekvatno vrednovanje odgovornosti naspram prirode. Samim time dolazimo i do bioetičkog uporišta unutar ideje integrativne gospodarske etike. Tako ona neminovno postaje ne samo jedno od bioetičkih uporišta, nego svojim idejama i doprinosima može biti stavljena u okvire (integrativnog) bioetičkog diskursa. ; In this paper, we tried to present the idea of "integrative economic ethics" of Peter Ulrich, viewing it in the context of modern ethical trends, and bring the same in connection with the new paradigm of pluriperspectiveness within integrative bioethics. We based the research on contributions brought forth by the Institute for Business Ethics in St. Gallen, the founder and director of which is Peter Ulrich himself. The comparisons that we tried to make with the idea of Hans Küng Weltethos, and Hans Jonas Principle of Responsibility, were supposed to show us that the idea of integrative economic ethics is a continuation of a series within ethical considerations about dealing with serious problems which are and will be faced by the society and the world. Ulrich seeks answers to the question of meaningfulness of our economizing, and the question of how much can our economizing be justified in relation to the others, which would be the question of legitimacy. As a central challenge for integrative economic ethics and its reflection, the question about the environment and inadequate evaluation of the responsibility towards nature can certainly be raised. By that alone, we come to the bioethical viewpoint within the idea of integrative economic ethics. In that way, it unavoidably becomes not only one of the bioethical footholds, but it can be placed within the frames of (integrative) bioethical discourse.

Milton Friedman polarisiert: Er bezeichnet die »Freiheit zu hungern« als das höchste Gut einer Gesellschaft und lehnt eine soziale Verantwortung von Unternehmen ab. Björn Görder analysiert Friedmans negatives Verständnis von Freiheit vor dem Hintergrund von dessen erkenntnistheoretischen und anthropologischen Voraussetzungen und beschreibt die institutionentheoretischen Konsequenzen dieser Theorie. Görder diskutiert Friedmans normative Freiheitstheorie im Horizont philosophischer, theologischer und empirischer Ansätze. So entwickelt er eine Freiheitstheorie, die Friedmans Impulse für individuelle Selbstbestimmung aufnimmt. Gleichzeitig vertritt er die anthropologisch fundierte These: Ein umfassenderes Verständnis von Freiheit ist nötig, wenn Menschen tatsächlich selbstbestimmt leben sollen. Das verlangt, in Fragen der Verantwortung, Gerechtigkeit, Institutionentheorie und Präferenzautonomie über Friedman hinaus zu denken.

This book investigates the functioning and effects of moral rules and values as endogenous elements of governance structures when applied to economic and social transactions. It considers itself as a contribution to the research program of interdisciplinary Institutional Economics. The point of departure and framework of this book is Josef Wieland's theory of Ethics of Governance. Its focal point is the governance of the normative aspects of corporations. The Ethics of Governance is a comparative research project on business and economic ethics which started 15 years ago. Divided into five chapters, the book provides a comprehensive insight into the theoretical foundation and application-oriented results of the research project. It covers theoretical, conceptual and practical challenges in the global economy with regard to a sustainable economy, the social responsibility of corporations, and their transcultural and normative management. By offering comprehensive insight into the research results of the Ethics of Governance project, this book provides a unique scientific work on business and economic ethics

The transformation process from the planned to the market economy in the East Central European countries is a laboratory of applying economic theory and business ethics to an enormous historical transition in the economic and political system. Authors from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia analyse the economic, philosophical and political problems of the transition process. They discuss the economic and legal questions of the privatization of socialized property, examine critically whether pure Liberalism has been and is able to cope with the transition problems, and investigate the role and impact of business ethics in the transition process. This volume contributes to the theory of the role of business ethics in periods of institutional change