Everybody who ascribes a material steering function to moral norms has to give some reasons why rational individuals actually obey these norms. This is a quite natural question to start with, specially for economists. Recently, the philosophers Stemmer (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004), Hoerster...

The publishing conduct of scientists is increasingly becoming the object of science-based ethical considerations. Studies have shown that questionable publishing conduct is not a rare phenomenon in this area. National and international scientific organisations are making recommendations about...