Die Autorin lädt ihre Leser*innen zu einer Erkundung von normativen Rahmungen ein, welche ihrer wissenschaftliche Forschungsarbeit als Sozial- und Arbeitspsychologin zugrunde liegen. Aus dem Blickwinkel der qualitativen Forschung und bezogen auf Fragen der sozialen Nachhaltigkeit in...

Dieser Beitrag geht der Frage nach, welche Rolle normative Ethiken in den Wirtschaftswissenschaf-ten spielen. Zunächst wird dazu der allgemeine Zusammenhang zwischen Erfahrungswissenschaf-ten und normativen Ethiken diskutiert. Dann wird gezeigt, in welcher Form die sogenannte...

Widely discredited ideas nevertheless persist. Why do we fail to "unlearn"? We study one explanation: beliefs are resistant to retractions (the revoking of earlier information). Our experimental design allows us to identify updating from retractions - unlearning - and to compare it with updating...

Die aktuellen politischen Debatten um den Klimawandel oder die Corona-Pandemie zeigen die grundlegende Umstrittenheit von Expertise in Politik und Gesellschaft. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes analysieren hierzu verschiedene Facetten, Akteure und Dynamiken der aktuellen Konflikte um Wissen und...

Is there a moral economy of capitalism? The term "moral economy" was coined in pre-capitalist times and does not refer to economy as we know it today. It was only in the nineteenth century that economy came to mean the production and circulation of goods and services. At the same time, the term...

"All humans have bias, and as a result, so do the institutions we build. Internationally sought after diversity consultant Tiffany Jana offers concrete ways for anyone to work against institutional bias no matter what their position is in an organization. While it is easy to identify...

This important textbook has been revised and updated to continue its focus on the link between ethics and economic policy analysis, whilst ensuring that perspectives addressing the moral limits of the market, latest behavioural economics literature, and the changes in inequality over the years...

The purpose of this note is to contribute to the emerging common understanding between the natural science, economic and social science perspectives on the 'value' of ecosystems and biodiversity. Given the inherent complexity of nature it is not surprising that the concept of 'value is capable...

Addresses the question of valuation theoretically and through empirical analysts of diverse objects of valuations such as university rankings, ice skating scoring, wind power, insurance, gold, and big data

I develop a model of ideologies as collectively sustained (yet individually rational) distortions in beliefs concerning the proper scope of governments versus markets. In processing and interpreting signals of the efficacy of public and market provision of education, health insurance, pensions,...

This essay examines how repugnance sometimes constrains what transactions and markets we see. When my colleagues and I have helped design markets and allocation procedures, we have often found that distaste for certain kinds of transactions is a real constraint, every bit as real as the...

In almost every corner of our private and public lives we rely on experts to advise us. This important species of labor is getting increasing attention from economists, who are beginning to learn how to apply their tools and assumptions to the problem of expertise. Under what conditions of...