Arbeitspapier

Responsibility and economics

Empirically, responsibility is a concept increasingly made use of in order to address societal issues. At the same time, it is a concept mainstream economics has, so far, hardly touched on. The paper shows that the application of economic reasoning to the responsibility concept can instruct a twofold learning process: First, the very tradition of economics allows to better understand and elaborate the semantics of responsibility. Here, the paper develops the concept of ordo-responsibility that differentiates between the initial basic game and the related meta-games. The focus thus shifts to the rule- setting processes and rule-finding discourses for which the actors can accept governance responsibility and discourse responsibility, respectively. Second, the rational-choice analysis of the responsibility concept also produces important insights for mainstream economic theory. Building on a simple model that delineates the responsibility aptitude of an actor, the paper explains why standard economics tends to attribute the rule-setting function exclusively to state actors. Yet, as the underlying nation-state paradigm depends on social determinants that are not universally given, such economic theory shows a double blind spot. Against this backdrop, the paper sketches out how to broaden the conventional perspective and identifies policy recommendations for state actors and business corporations.

ISBN
978-3-86010-900-7
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Diskussionspapier ; No. 2007-6

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Beckmann, Markus
Pies, Ingo
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsethik
(wo)
Halle (Saale)
(wann)
2007

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:2-1174
Letzte Aktualisierung
11.03.2025, 16:33 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Beckmann, Markus
  • Pies, Ingo
  • Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsethik

Entstanden

  • 2007

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