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.

First collection of original essays of the major approaches to economic ethics and business ethics in Germany, the USA, and Europe Shows the differences between the continental European and the American approaches The reader finds a comprehensive overview of these approaches

Autorentext
Peter Koslowski ist Gründungsdirektor des Forschungsinstituts für Philosophie Hannover und Professor für Philosophie und Politische Ökonomie an der Universität Witten/Herdecke.

Inhalt
A Ethics and Economic Ethics.- 1 The Theory of Ethical Economy as a Cultural, Ethical, and Historical Economics: Economic Ethics and the Historist Challenge.- 2 Moral Motives and Political Mechanisms.- 3 Integrative Economic Ethics Towards a Conception of Socio-Economic Rationality.- 4 Changing Normative Textures. How Discourse-Ethics Meets the Challenge of Historicism.- 5 Ethics, Corporate Culture and Economic Modelling.- B Business Ethics.- 6 Historicism, Communitarianism and Commerce: An Aristotelean Approach to Business Ethics.- 7 Corporate Ethics and Management Theory.- 8 Business Ethics and Discourse Ethics: Germanic Roots with Intercultural Applications.- 9 Business Ethics and Management.- 10 Some Implications of Voucher Privatisation for Corporate Governance: A Business Ethics Perspective.- 11 An Institutional Approach to Business Ethics.- List of Authors and Discussants.- Index of Names.