Länder setzen immer wieder Wirtschaftssanktionen gegen andere Nationen ein, um diese zu einem bestimmten Handeln zu bewegen. Ein verändertes Verhalten soll dadurch erwirkt werden, dass dem von der Sanktion betroffenen Land ein wirtschaftlicher Schaden zugefügt wird. Er erhöht den Preis für...

Since the beginning of the finance crisis, the notion of capitalism and the adjective capitalistic are more and more employed in public discourse without making an attempt to define it. In contrast, the concept of market economy is less used. We try in this paper to differentiate both concepts...

MINE - Mapping the Interplay between Nature and Economy is a digital archive and visual map showing the intersection between nature and economy. By focusing on the interconnections between fundamental concepts e.g. of time, thermodynamics, evolution, responsibility and justice, a new concept of...

Since the beginning of the finance crisis, the notion of capitalism and the adjective capitalistic are more and more employed in public discourse without making an attempt to define it. In contrast, the concept of market economy is less used. We try in this paper to differentiate both concepts...

MINE - Mapping the Interplay between Nature and Economy is a digital archive and visual map showing the intersection between nature and economy. By focusing on the interconnections between fundamental concepts e.g. of time, thermodynamics, evolution, responsibility and justice, a new concept of...

We clarify the concept of responsibility – its conditions, meanings, syntax, forms, and ethical status. Our analysis of responsibility proceeds on the secondary level of ethics, i.e. it is focused on conceptual structure and insofar independent of exactly what primary ethical position one...