Restaurant economics is a subrange of the economic science as well as the philosophical ethics, which with the question argues, how the economic with the ethical-practical reason can be mediated.

Prehistory and emergence

As the first social science succeeds itself the economic science in 19. Century to emanzipieren after the model of the natural sciences from latemedieval moral philosophy. It is established as autonomous Since then ethics and economic science stand for discipline eras as each other alienated thinking traditions in a non--relationship: The economics is exclusively based upon one at efficiency aligned economic Questions of the human being and environmental justice are referred into the sphere of an except-economic ethics. From this two-world conception of ethics and economics the konstitutive Grundproblem of a modern restaurant ethics catches fire: How can the economic with the ethical-practical reason be mediated

Economiceconomics reflection can be retraced to idea and theory-historically up to the unit of ethics, politics and economics with Aristoteles. Also scholastische studies, which economic classical period, whose general agent originates such as Adam Smith from the moral philosophy, which is method controversy in Germany and max of webers as way marks in the prehistory of the today's discussion to state. In addition the Ordoliberalismus resident in the German linguistic area is to be called. From the point of view of the prevailing direction of the economic science (Neoklassik, Mainstream) are however edge phenomena, which argue the economic self understanding after outside of the economic reference framework. To the few economists, who both when outstanding economists and Wirtschaftsethiker apply, franc Knight, which as founder of the Chicago school entered theory history, belongs.

Since the task of the agreements of Bretton Woods at the beginning of the seventies of the past century, which had specified a system of firm rates of exchange, has itself a strong financial industry developed. Heiner Geissler (CDU) for this (quotation): "“Osama Ben Laden finances its terrorism with the help of this gigantic financial industry, in which it is with involved in all other respects."” Geissler in a mirror interview from 24 April 2005 (quotation) commentates the announced dismissals with the German bank: "“Ways of the increase of the capital net yield on 25 per cent, we experience that there now, the existence by six thousand humans on the play are set. "… An economic system, which that the stock exchange value of an enterprise the more highly rises, the will dismiss more humans, is so defined deeply immorally. And also economically wrongly."”

Since in the middle of the 1980er years again-awoke the interest in the restaurant ethics. References such as Shareholder VALUE, increasing environmental degradation or increasing mass unemployment raise the question about the normative bases of managing. Restaurant economics comes as crisis reflection on the way. Substantial impulses for the Wiederentdeckung of the restaurant ethics proceeded from the association for Socialpolitik, church academies and different universities. Working groups, panels, book series, academic federations, seminars and lectures let the restaurant ethics grow up for approximately 1990 to their own research and training area.

Beginnings

With respect to the German-speaking countries one differentiates between restaurant economics and enterprise ethics; during itself first with the theoretical relationship of economics, and ethics sets, concerns themselves the latters apart particularly with questions of economical handling with moral and ethics.

In the English-language area Business Ethics is taught since longer than subject at universities. Despite large overlaps within the article range the focus of the English-language discussion is substantially on application-oriented and empirical questions, while the German-language discussion is strongly characterized by theoretical controversies.

Karl Homann

Karl Homann and its pupils (in particular Andreas Suchanek, Ingo Pies and Christoph justify their concept of a restaurant ethics on the analysis of dilemma situations (see also prisoner's dilemma), since these represent the central characteristic of the modern society. To the analysis they avail themselves thereby of the economic method whereby here now however contrary to the traditional understanding the scarceness is not the center of attention, but interactions (Homann et al. therefore proceed not from the possibility of a technical solution!). After their opinion the institutionalized competition, i.e. the competition under rules, the starting point, are in order to realize desired goals in a modern, arbeitsteiligen world.

In a modern world the rules (basic conditions) are the systematic place of the moral. However the attempt fails to implement moral by appeals systematically because of the fact that the particular is forced to act against its self-interests; the empirical conditions are not considered and it exist the danger of the inadequate demands (normativistic false conclusion ). Therefore the incentive effects of the basic condition must be arranged in such a way that individual acting from participants leads to a socially desired condition. Task of the (in the above sense!) it is to arrange institutions in such a way that the incentive effects are set in such a way that the persons interact for the mutual advantage (overcoming of the dilemma situation). They supply a concise summary with: "“The systematic place of the moral in a free-market economy is the basic order."” and/or "“the efficiency in the play courses, the moral in the rules."” (Homann, K. /Blome Drees, F., restaurant economics, 1992, P. 35)

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