Das Ziel dieses Artikel besteht darin, den ordonomischen Ansatz durch eine Illustration vorzustellen. (a) Am aktuellen Beispiel der Einführung des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns wird gezeigt, wie die Ordonomik ein Diskursversagen diagnostiziert, das zu einem Politikversagen geführt hat, welches in...

Als Anregung zum schulischen Bildungsauftrag wird skizziert, wie das ordonomische Forschungsprogramm die Ordnungsethik in die Lage versetzt, Moral(kommunikation) konstruktiv zu kritisieren. Am Beispiel der deutschen Mindestlohndebatte wird gezeigt, dass der öffentliche Diskurs einem...

The ordonomic approach to order ethics contains four elements: (a) a diagnosis of mo-dernity, which identifies the core problems and directs the research strategy to solving them; (b) a rational-choice analysis of social dilemmas, i.e. positive theorizing which informs about the un-intended...

Dieser Artikel diente als Textgrundlage für eine „Keynote Address“, die ich am 26. Juni 2020 als Video-Vortrag zum IAMO Forum 2020 beigesteuert habe. Sie geht der Frage nach, inwiefern moralische Gefühle und helfen bzw. daran hindern, vernünftige Strategien zu finden, mit denen sich die...

This short text suggests that Germany and the European Union should generously welcome not only war refugees from Ukraine, but also Russian soldiers who have deserted. As a disruptive gratification, this would be a humanitarian contribution to asymmetric warfare and would support Ukraine's...

This paper argues that the perspective of ordonomic—a rational-choice based analysis of (interdependencies between) social structure and semantics—can provide new insights into the changing role of business in society. We claim (a) that the proper role of business is societal value creation,...

Drawing on an ordonomic approach, this paper argues that a theory of global justice should incorporate as a pivotal cornerstone a theory of corporate citizenship which constructively addresses business firms as agents of social value creation. We argue that, instead of relying exclusively on...

This is an essay in conceptual clarification: by way of comparison with the Aristotelian idea of individual citizenship for the antique polis, this article develops an ordonomic concept of “corporate citizenship” that offers two insights for academic scholarship. First, we clarify what is...

The ordonomic approach to order ethics contains four elements: (a) a diagnosis of modernity, which identifies the core problems and directs the research strategy to solving them; (b) a rational-choice analysis of social dilemmas, i.e. positive theorizing which informs about the un-intended...

'Ordonomics' is a research program that has been developed at the Chair of Economic Ethics at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. It holds that business actors (persons and organizations) can employ morality as a 'factor of production', and that business ethics can be based on a specific...