The approaches to economic ethics and business ethics in Continental Europe and those in America show considerable differences but also a shared interest in turning business ethics into a subject relevant and useful for business practice as well as for the philosophical debate on ethics. The volume collects original essays on the major approaches to economic ethics and business ethics in Germany, the USA, and Europe. It provides the reader with a comprehensive overview about the discussion on modern economic ethics and business ethics. It introduces the German approaches to economic ethics and to business ethics to the English-speaking audience.

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Preface.- Ethics and Economic Ethics: PETER KOSLOWSKI, The Theory of Ethical Economy as a Cultural, Ethical and Historical Economics: Economic Ethics and the Historist Challenge; ALAN HAMLIN, Moral Motives and Political Mechanisms; PETER ULRICH, Integrative Economic Ethics-Towards a Conception of Socio-Economic Rationality; MATTHIAS KETTNER, Changing Normative Textures. How Discourse- Ethics Meets the Challenge of Historicism; LORENZO SACCONI, Ethics, Corporate Culture and Economic Modelling.- Business Ethics: ROBERT C. SOLOMON, Historicism, Communitarianism and Commerce: An Aristotelean Approach to Business Ethics; HORST STEINMANN, ANDREAS GEORG SCHERER, Corporate Ethics and Management Theory; WARREN A. FRENCH, STEFAN KIMMELL, Business Ethics and Discourse Ethics: Germanic Roots with Intercultural Applications; HARTMUT KREIKEBAUM, Business Ethics and Management; MARIE BOHATA, Some Implications of Voucher Privatisation for Corporate Governance: A Business Ethics Perspective; JOSEF WIELAND, An Institutional Approach to Business Ethics.- List of Authors and Discussants.- Index of Names