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Folk Economics und Folk Ethics als moralisches Problem: Ordonomische Anregungen zur Business Ethics

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Folk Economics' ist die Wirtschafts-'Theorie' und analog ist 'Folk Ethics' die Moral-"Theorie" des gesundes Menschenverstandes. Typisch für 'folk-economic beliefs' sind fehlerhafte Kausalattributionen. Typisch für 'folk-ethical beliefs' sind utopische oder dysfunktionale Bewertungsmaßstäbe. Die Hauptthese dieses Aufsatzes besagt, dass diese beiden Quellen positiver und normativer Desorientierung zu einem Forschungsobjekt der Business Ethics gemacht werden sollten, um - neben dem wichtigen Bereich gerechtfertigter Moralkritik an der Wirtschaft - auch den bislang vernachlässigten Bereich einer ungerechtfertigten Moralkritik an der Marktwirtschaft wissenschaftlich zu bearbeiten. Zur Unterstützung dieser These wird anhand praktischer Syllogismen gezeigt, dass die wissenschaftliche Kritik und Korrektur von 'folk-economic beliefs' eine etwas andere Vorgehensweise erfordert als die wissenschaftliche Kritik und Korrektur von 'folk-ethical beliefs'.

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  • Pies, Ingo, 2023. "Folk Economics und Folk Ethics als moralisches Problem: Ordonomische Anregungen zur Business Ethics," Discussion Papers 2023-12, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Chair of Economic Ethics.
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    Keywords

    Business Ethics; Folk-economic Beliefs; Folk-ethical Beliefs; Praktischer Syllogismus; Practical Syllogism;
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    JEL classification:

    • A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology
    • B52 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Modern Monetary Theory;
    • L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation

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