Handbook of Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics

The Handbook of Business Ethics: Philosophical Foundations is a standard interdisciplinary reference handbook in the field of business ethics. Articles by notable philosophers and economists examine fundamental concepts, theories and questions of business ethics: Are morality and self-interest compatible? What is meant by a just price? What did the Scholastic philosophers think about business?The handbook will cover the entire philosophical basis of business ethics. Articles range from historical positions such as Aristotelianism, Kantianism and Marxism to systematic issues like justice, religious issues, rights and globalisation or gender.The book is intended as a reference work for academics, students (esp. graduate), and professionals.

Christoph Luetge studied economics and philosophy in Braunschweig, Paris, Goettingen and Berlin. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Pittsburgh (1997), research fellow at the University of California, San Diego (1998) and visiting professor at Venice International University (2003). After taking his PhD in philosophy in 1999, Luetge held a position as assistant professor at the Institute for Philosophy and Economics of the University of Munich from 1999 to 2007, where he also took his habilitation in 2005. He has been acting professor at Witten/Herdecke University (2007-2008) and at Braunschweig University of Technology (2008-2010). Since 2010, he holds the Peter Loscher Chair in Business Ethics at Technische Universitat Munchen. His main areas of interest are business ethics, general ethics, internet and computer ethics as well as philosophy of the social sciences and economics. His major publications include Corporate Citizenship, Contractarianism and Ethical Theory: On Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics (co-editor, 2008), Was halt eine Gesellschaft zusammen? (2007, in German), an Introduction to Business Ethics (co-author, 2004, in German) as well as 10 other books and more than 80 articles.