Die Philosophie des Marktes

Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch

Just a few decades ago, markets were regarded as institutions that can be used to solve problems in almost all areas of society efficiently and to the benefit of all citizens. This assessment has meanwhile given way to another: since the outbreak of the global economic crisis in 2008, markets have increasingly been perceived as institutions that do not solve social problems and create social ills. It is therefore not surprising that questions of the market of philosophers and philosophers are increasingly being taken up and discussed. This book seeks to clarify, discuss and answer the conceptual, social-theoretical, moral-psychological and ethical questions with which global markets are currently confronting us and at the same time shed new light on the theories of classical proponents of market philosophy (such as Adam Smith, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx or John Stuart...