March 5, 2021 Weltethos for the “Industry 4.0” of the Pacific Alliance On March 4, 2021, Ulrich Hemel held a keynote speech in front of 937 participants on the topic of “The Digital Epoch, Industry 4.0 and Digital Humanity”. This was... more
March 1, 2021 The Data Literacy Charter: Shaping educational processes together for the 21st century Published on February 12, 2021 This post first appeared on the Blog of the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung. Authors: Dr. Henning Koch, Katharina Schüller, Florian Rampelt At the beginning of February... more
February 26, 2021 Lecture series – Weltethos Talk of the Town: “What can we in Tübingen learn from the Covid crisis?” The Covid crisis triggered a variety of learning processes in Tübingen and around the world. In our public lecture series, we ask questions every Monday at 6:15 p.m. this... more
February 26, 2021 “Cultures of Humanity” The China Centre Tübingen, the Erich Fromm Institute, and the Weltethos Institute are planning more joint events. In Tübingen, the Karl Schlecht Foundation supports not only the Weltethos Institute,... more
February 26, 2021 “From Humanistic to Mechanistic Economics – and Back?” The former director of the Institute, Prof. Dr. Claus Dierksmeier, has published an essay on the fundamental connection between ethics and economics. Comparing how Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, and Adam... more
February 26, 2021 Financial Populism Using the Example of GameStop The controversy surrounding the subreddit “Wallstreetbets” and GameStop stock have been causing a stir in social networks and also in the established media for weeks. The “small investor vs.... more
February 1, 2021 Director Ulrich Hemel signs Data-Literacy-Charta Prof. Dr. Dr. Ulrich Hemel is the first signatory to a charter initiated by the Stifterverband, which formulates a common understanding of data literacy and its importance for educational... more
January 22, 2021 “Social market economy as a peace project” – also available in Spanish and Italian The joint essay “Social Market Economy as a Peace Project”, which Dr. Christopher Gohl, Prof. Nils Goldschmidt, Prof. Dr. Dr. Ulrich Hemel and Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Sachs first published... more
December 10, 2020 Sustainable Investment – The scientific foundation behind the trend The Frankfurt-Hohenheim Guidelines of our Finance and Economics Research Group (formerly FGEÖR) laid the scientific foundation in the 1990s for a megatrend that we can currently observe. Sustainability ratings... more
December 23, 2019 Social Market Economy for the 21st century: An International Peace Project Joint essay by Dr. Christopher Gohl, Prof. Dr. Nils Goldschmidt, Prof. Dr. Dr. Ulrich Hemel and Professor Jeffrey Sachs – first published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Our inner peace... more