The European Union challenges the European national state and its idea of the unity of nation and state. It is a transnational union of nation states in which, like in any un-ion, the member states must give up parts of their sovereignty. Regardless of the fact whether the EU is already a...

Happiness in philosophical ethics and utility or satisfaction in economics have much in common. The paper investigates the ethical economy of happiness as a joint topic of ethical and economic theory. It shows that limits of the calculus of utility maximization also apply to concepts of the...

Das Leitbild der Wirtschafts-und Sozialordnung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, die Soziale Markwirtschaft, wird durch die Idee des sozialen Ausgleichs von Einkommensunterschieden durch die progressive Besteuerung, durch die umlagefinanzierte Altersvorsorge, durch die Mitbestimmung der...

Economic ethics describes the interaction of ethics and economics in explaining human action and in giving normative advice to ethically justifiable and efficient choices of action. As ethical economy, it analyses the ethical conditions of coordination in markets and the economic conditions of...

Konsumieren und Produzieren sind Formen, in denen sich das Selbst mit seiner Umwelt auseinandersetzt. Konsumieren ist bereits für den nicht-menschlichen Organismus notwendig. Jeder Organismus konsumiert aus seiner Umwelt, seinem äußeren Milieu, um sein inneres Milieu aufrechtzuerhalten. Nur...

Globalization extends the space of the things that are simultaneous for the human. This applies particularly to the decision-making in financial markets. The global market for capital is one of the main causes for globalization. How is this process of globalization to be judged from the point of...