Ethics In Economics, Business, And Economic Policy (ethical Economy)

This book presents an integration of the analysis of symbo- lic, ethical, and cultural meaning into the theory of econo- mic action. It demontrates that the scope of economics is widened by the inclusion of the cultural and ethical determinants of economic action and by bringing the ethical and cultural factors back into economics and management science. The book's contribution to business ethics and economic ethics lies in its distinctly continental European background which is often overlooked in current discussions of economic theory. The papers in this volume point to a mutual interpenetration of economics and ethics in a new synthesis of "ethical economy". In 1989, for the first time, the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) assembled European research institutes for economics and ethics or business ethics at the Nijenrode Universiteit voor Bedrijfskun de (Nijenrode Business SchooD in the Netherlands. In 1990 this Meeting of European Research Institutes was held at the Centrum voor Econo mie en Ethiek (Centre for Economics and Ethics), Katholieke Universi teit Leuven in Belgium. In 1991 the institutes met in the "Hannover Meeting of European Re search Institutes on Economics and Ethics. 3rd Annual EBEN Meeting of Business Ethics Research Centres in Europe" in the Forschungsinstitut fur Philosophie Hannover (Research Institute for Philosophy, Hanno ver) at Hannover, Germany, on April 19th and 20th, 1991. This volume publishes the papers and discussion summaries of the Hannover Meeting in which sixteen institutes from ten European countries took part. I should like to thank all those who helped to make this conference a success, to my co-workers at the Research Institute of Philosophy Hannover, particularly to Anna Maria Hauk and Annette Kleinfeld Wernicke, to those who wrote the discussion summaries, and to EBEN and its president, Henk van Luijk, who took the initiative to institution alize these European meetings of research institutes working in the field between economics, management science, and philosophical ethics Front Matter....Pages i-7 Ethics in Economics, Business, and Economic Policy Introduction....Pages 9-12 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 Ethical Economy as Synthesis of Economic and Ethical Theory....Pages 15-56 Discussion Summary....Pages 57-58 Behind the Veil of Time Rules, Institutions, and Temporal Stability....Pages 59-89 Discussion Summary....Pages 90-91 Front Matter....Pages 93-93 Moral Dilemmas and Organization Design....Pages 95-115 Discussion Summary....Pages 116-117 The Concept of a Person as the Anthropological Basis of Business and Corporate Ethics....Pages 119-136 Discussion Summary....Pages 137-138 Front Matter....Pages 139-139 Privatization in Czechoslovakia....Pages 141-156 Discussion Summary....Pages 157-158 Ecology and Intergenerational Equity....Pages 159-181 Discussion Summary....Pages 182-183 Back Matter....Pages 184-188