In the VUCA world (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity), management has to find the right path facing volatility, uncertainty, as well as complex and ambiguous environments. At the same time, ethics itself is highly complex due to the plurality of ethics and because it goes far beyond following rules and respecting norms. Managers need an even stronger basis of values,...

What holds societies together when markets are globalised, working conditions are made more flexible and social security becomes fragile? Between economic rationalities and growing inequalities, the concept of solidarity is gaining new relevance. But what does solidarity mean in an economic order characterised by competition? In this seminar, we will address the question of how solidarity can become effective as...

This course begins with a close reading of John Ruskin’s Unto This Last before branching out to tackle a variety of 20th– and 21st-century world authors on the theme of global economic justice. A common humanistic ‘ethos’ – or at least a harmony of humanistic concern for economic justice – will emerge from these diverse voices. Questions of future economic justice –...