Workers in Asian factories producing for Western markets suffer under inhumane working conditions. Suicides at Chinese suppliers of computer manufacturers and a fire in a Bangladesh garment factory recently drew public attention to this problem. But would workers in developing countries really...

Der Artikel verbindet Ergebnisse der Lebensstilforschung mit den moraltheoretischen Voraussetzungen einer Verantwortung von Konsumenten als integraler Bestandteil der Wirtschaftsethik. Die Bedeutung von Schichtfaktoren wie Einkommen und Bildung sowie Grundorientierungen der sozialen Milieus in...

Sovereign wealth and pension funds make use of investment guidelines as they invest for substantial part public money also, and thus, are subject to greater public scrutiny and expectations of environmental sustainability than privately owned funds. Thus informed, this article studies 13...

Food prices have gone up to prohibitive levels for many of the world’s poor. The vast majority of those who are hungry in the world today are working in agriculture, either as small landholders or as waged agricultural workers. The majority of the food producers have not benefited from rising...

Die Verhandlungen zwischen den USA und der EU über das Transatlantische Freihandels- und Investitionsabkommen (TTIP) sind in den letzten Monaten in das öffentliche Interesse gerückt. Umstritten ist vor allem das vorgesehene Investitionskapitel, das neben der Investitionsliberalisierung...

The Honda workers’ strike in 2010 attracted world wide attention. It was one of thousands of labor disputes that happen every year in China, but it was the first major calling for the right of workers to represent themselves in collective bargaining. The question of representation is therefore...

The discussion paper discusses the macroeconomic argument of a New Economy that is characterized by higher non-inflationary economic growth due to increases in productivity caused by the digital revolution. Besides presenting evidence put forward by mainstream protagonists of the New Economy, it...

Pfadabhängigkeit und „natürliche Auslese“ markieren zwei Pole im Spektrum der Diskussionen um Institutionentransfers. Die These der Pfadabhängigkeit impliziert, dass, wenn überhaupt, nur ein inländischer Institutionenwandel von der Wahrnehmung ausländischer Institutionen beeinflusst...