The United Nations Global Compact (GC) is an international learning network thatlinks companies with United Nations agencies, labour and civil society. Neither aregulatory regime nor a voluntary code of industry conduct, it is a unique contribution to the process of global governance, where the...

Empirically, responsibility is a concept increasingly made use of in order to address societal issues. At the same time, it is a concept mainstream economics has, so far, hardly touched on. The paper shows that the application of economic reasoning to the responsibility concept can instruct a...