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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...
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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...
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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...
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“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,...
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“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...
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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....
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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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...
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