Aim of the center for economics and ethics:
To organize and stimulate scientific research on the ethical aspects of economic activity. To stimulate ethically inspired research in the Faculty.
To foster the interdisciplinary contacts.
To confront the christian ethical tradition with the concepts of justice, freedom and efficiency as they are formulated in the social sciences and in philosophy.
To project applied problems of economic and business ethics against this general theoretical background. To stimulate the social debate on ethical aspects of economic activity.
Ethical norms for economic life: Theories of distributive justice ; empirical research into opinions about distributive justice.
The relationship between christian ethics and welfare economics
Altruistic motivations and gifts Ethical aspects of the market economics
Ethics and environmental economics
Poverty and the measurement of the living standard
Justice and efficiency of taxation and social security Business ethics
Social and ecological responsibility of the firm
Autonomy as an ethical value
