Order Ethics: An Ethical Framework for the Social Market Economy

This book examines the theoretical foundations of order ethics and discusses business ethics problems from an order ethics perspective. Order ethics focuses on the social order and the institutional environment in which individuals interact. It is a well-established paradigm in European business ethics.  The book contains articles written by leading experts in the field and provides both a concise introduction to order ethics and short summary articles homing in on specific aspects of the order-ethical paradigm.  It presents contributions describing fundamental concepts, historical roots, and the economic, social, and philosophical background of the theory. The second part of the handbook focuses on the theory's application in business, society, and politics, casting new light on an array of topics that loom large in contemporary ethical discourse.​

• Business Ethics
• Economic Ethics
• Economics
• Ethics
• Game Theory
• Order Ethics based on Contractualism

• Peter Löscher Chair of Business Eth, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

  Christoph Luetge

• München, Germany

  Nikil Mukerji

Nikil Mukerji is a researcher in philosophy at the Chair of Political Theory and Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and currently serves as academic director of the executive master’s degree programme Philosophie Politik Wirtschaft (PPW) also at LMU. He studied business administration, economics, philosophy, logic and scientific theory in Munich (Germany), Aberdeen (UK) and Auckland (NZ). His research and teaching interests comprise practical philosophy and particularly ethics, the philosophy of economics, practical logic and argumentation theory as well as experimental philosophy. As a self-employed trainer, coach and consultant with the Institut für Argumentation (Munich) he furthermore specializes in the application of philosophical ideas in the business world and everyday life.

Christoph Luetge holds the Peter Loescher Endowed Chair of Business Ethics at Technical University of Munich. He studied businessinformatics as well as philosophy, obtaining his doctorate in 1999 and his habilitation in 2005 at the University of Munich. He was visiting researcher in Pittsburgh and San Diego. Luetge taught business ethics at the Universities of Munich, Witten and Braunschweig before moving to Technical University of Munich in 2010. He held visiting professorships in Taipei, Kyoto and Venice and was awarded a Heisenberg Fellowship by the German Research Foundation in 2007. 

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