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Zum systematischen Verhaeltnis von Ordnungsethik und Verhaltensoekonomik (The Systematic Relationship between Ethics of Institutional Order and Behavioral Economics)

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Die Arbeit zielt auf die Begruendung eines komplementaeren Verhaeltnisses einer voraussetzungsaermeren Ordnungsethik und der Verhaltensoekonomik ab. Dabei zeigt sie erstens, inwiefern der Rekurs auf ein bestimmtes Homo-Oeconomicus-Modell als Zurechnungsschema (Heuristik) zu einer methodologisch dysfunktionalen Modellbildung fuehrt, zweitens die zentralste Argumentationsfigur der Ordnungsethik nicht nur auf ein empirisch pruefbares, sondern sehr restriktives HO-Modell angewiesen ist, drittens eine parallel auch verwendete Begruendung fuer die Verwendung eines restriktiven HO-Modells auf einem logischen Zirkelargument basiert und viertens die ordnungsethische Grundidee ein Potentialitaetsargument zugrunde legt, dessen Schlagkraft im Lichte verhaltensoekonomischer Erkenntnisse sehr begrenzt ist. (This paper provides a new line of reasoning for a complementary relationship between a less requiring Ethics of Institutional Order and Behavioral Economics. Firstly, it shows how the understanding of a specific homo-oeconomicus-model as a heuristic rule leads to methodologically dysfunctional modelling. Secondly, it stresses how a central argument of Ethics of Institutional Order requires an empirically testable and very restrictive homo-oeconomicus-model. Thirdly, it reveals the use of a circular argument for a different but widely accepted reasoning for the use of a restrictive homo-oeconomicus-model. With evidence from Behavioral Economics, it fourthly undermines the justification of an excessive application of Ethics of Institutional Order.)

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  • Niekamp, Michael, 2014. "Zum systematischen Verhaeltnis von Ordnungsethik und Verhaltensoekonomik (The Systematic Relationship between Ethics of Institutional Order and Behavioral Economics)," Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik - Journal for Business, Economics & Ethics, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, vol. 15(3), pages 335-350.
  • Handle: RePEc:nms:ethics:doi:10.1688/zfwu-2014-03-niekamp
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    Behavioral Economics; Ethics of Institutional Order; Homo-oeconomicus-Model; Constraints;
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    JEL classification:

    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • A14 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Sociology of Economics
    • J53 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Labor-Management Relations; Industrial Jurisprudence
    • Z10 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - General

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