Departing from the almost invariably skeptical view of privacy encountered in economics, we re-evaluate privacy from the perspective of economic liberalism. We argue that the idea of freedom is fundamental to economics and that privacy can be best conceived as a specific form of freedom....

Die interdisziplinär angelegte Arbeit entwickelt eine ethische Position, die Pluralismus als Ethik begreift. Diese Position propagiert keine Beliebigkeit, auch wenn gemäß van Aakens Ethikkonzeption keine unmittelbaren Maßstäbe existieren, anhand derer die Praxis der Menschen als "gut" oder...

Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of social practice this paper develops a novel approach to the study of CSR. According to this approach, pro-social activities are conceptualized as social practices that are employed by individual managers in their personal struggles for social power. Whether...