Order Ethics: An Ethical Framework for the Social Market Economy

✍ Scribed by Christoph Luetge, Nikil Mukerji (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 367
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines the theoretical foundations of order ethics and discusses business ethics problems from an order ethics perspective. Order ethics focuses on the social order and the institutional environment in which individuals interact. It is a well-established paradigm in European business ethics. The book contains articles written by leading experts in the field and provides both a concise introduction to order ethics and short summary articles homing in on specific aspects of the order-ethical paradigm. It presents contributions describing fundamental concepts, historical roots, and the economic, social, and philosophical background of the theory. The second part of the handbook focuses on the theory's application in business, society, and politics, casting new light on an array of topics that loom large in contemporary ethical discourse.​

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Contractarian Foundations of Order Ethics....Pages 3-17
The Ordonomic Approach to Order Ethics....Pages 19-35
Theory Strategies of Business Ethics....Pages 37-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
A Critique of Welfare Economics....Pages 57-66
Order Ethics—An Experimental Perspective....Pages 67-78
Order Ethics and Situationist Psychology....Pages 79-92
Order Ethics, Economics, and Game Theory....Pages 93-107
Biblical Economics and Order Ethics: Constitutional Economic and Institutional Economic Roots of the Old Testament....Pages 109-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Order Ethics and the Problem of Social Glue....Pages 127-147
Rawls, Order Ethics, and Rawlsian Order Ethics....Pages 149-166
Boost up and Merge with. Order Ethics in the Light of Recent Developments in Justice Theory....Pages 167-180
Deconstructive Ethics—Handling Human Plurality (Shaped) by Normative (Enabling) Conditions....Pages 181-193
Contrasting the Behavioural Business Ethics Approach and the Institutional Economic Approach to Business Ethics: Insights from the Study of Quaker Employers....Pages 195-217
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
The Constitution of Responsibility: Toward an Ordonomic Framework for Interpreting (Corporate Social) Responsibility in Different Social Settings....Pages 221-250
Companies as Political Actors: A Positioning Between Ordo-Responsibility and Systems Responsibility....Pages 251-278
Is the Minimum Wage Ethically Justifiable? An Order-Ethical Answer....Pages 279-292
Sustainability from an Order Ethics Perspective....Pages 293-310
An Ordonomic Perspective in Medical Ethics....Pages 311-327
Ethics and the Development of Reputation Risk at Goldman Sachs 2008–2010....Pages 329-347
Executive Compensation....Pages 349-361
Back Matter....Pages 363-366

✦ Subjects

Ethics;Methodology/History of Economic Thought;Methodology of the Social Sciences;Psychological Methods/Evaluation;Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods;Philosophy of the Social Sciences