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4.1 Literature Recommendations

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4.2 References

Philosophy

Arendt, H. (1958) The Human Condition, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

Aristotle (2000), Nicomachean Ethics, ed. by R. Crisp (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  All quotes from Aristotle are based on the translation by David Ross, 1925.

Faber, M. and Manstetten, R. (2010) Philosophical Basics of Ecology and Economy. Translated by D. Adams. London and New York: Routledge.

Hegel, G.W. (1970)[1821],  Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts oder Naturrecht  und Staatswissenschaft  im Grundrisse, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp.

Horkheimer, M. and T.W. Adorno (1968): Dialektik der Aufklärung, Amsterdam: de Munter.

Ethics

Kant, I. (1996a)[1785], Groundwork of the metaphysics of morals, in Practical Philosophy, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 41-108.

Kant , I. (1996b) [1797] On a supposed right to lie from philanthropy, in Practical Philosophy, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 41-108.

Plessner, H. (2003), Macht und menschliche Natur (Gesammelte Schriften Bd. V), Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.

Spaemann, R. (1989), Nebenwirkungen als moralisches Problem, in Zur Kritik der politischen Utopie. Zehn Kapitel politischer Philosophie, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, pp. 169-182.

Tugendhat, E. (1993), Vorlesungen über Ethik, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp.

Weber, M.  (1988) [1919], Politik als Beruf, in Gesammelte Politische Schriften, ed. by J. Winckelmann, Tübingen: Mohr, pp. 505-560.  

Wieland, W. (1999), Verantwortung – Prinzip der Ethik? Heidelberg: Winter.

Responsibility

Beck, U. (1992), Risk Society.  Towards a New  Modernity, London: Sage.

Foot, P. (1994), The problem of abortion and the doctrine of the double effect, in B. Steinbock and A. Norcross (eds.), Killing and Letting Die, 2nd edn., New York: Fordham University Press.

Jonas, H. (1979), Das Prinzip Verantwortung. Versuch einer Ethik für die technologische Zivilisation, Frankfurt, Suhrkamp. English translation: The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the technological Age, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1984.

Meier, C. (1983), Die Entstehung des Politischen bei den Griechen, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp.

Petersen, T. and M. Faber (2000), ‘Bedingungen erfolgreicher Umweltpolitik im deutschen Föderalismus’, Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 10(1), 5–41. This paper describes and analyses how conditions of successful environmental policy is founded on responsible behaviour of governmental administrators.

Petersen, T. and M. Faber (2005) „Verantwortung und das Problem der Kuppelproduktion: Reflexionen über die Grundlagen der Umweltpolitik“, Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 15(1), 35–59. The translation of this paper is the basis of this element.

Spaemann, R. (1977), ‘Nebenwirkungen als moralisches Problem’, in Zur Kritik  der  politischen  Utopie. Zehn  Kapitel  politischer  Philosophie, Stuttgart:

Klett-Cotta, pp. 167–182.

 

Ecological Economics

Baumgärtner, Faber and Schiller (2006), Joint Production and Responsibility in Ecological Economics. On the Foundations of Environmental Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing. Its Part III deals with joint production [see element Joint Production] and responsibility. It is the basis for this text.

Faber, M., R. Manstetten and T. Petersen (1997): “Homo politicus and homo  oeconomicus. Political economy, constitutional interest and ecological interest”, Kyklos, 50, 457–483.

Proops, L.J.R. (2001), “The (non-) economics of nuclear fuel cycle: an historical and discourse analysis”. Ecological Economics, 39: 13-18.

Zahrnt, A and Zahrnt, D. (2016) Digitale Landkarte Suffizienzpolitik, retrived from: http://www.postwachstum.de/suffizienzpolitik. This is the internet address of the digital landscape for sufficiency

 Political Economy

Faber, M. Manstetten, R. (2014) Was ist Wirtschaft? Von der Politischen Ökonomie zur Ökologischen Ökonomie, 2nd edition, Freiburg: Alber.

Marx, K. (1902), Capital, a Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production, London: Swan Sonnenschein.

Petersen, T. and Faber, M. (2014) Karl Marx und die Philosophie der Wirtschaft. Bestandsaufnahme – Überprüfung – Neubewertung, Freiburg: Alber. This book attempts to give a stock staking, an examination and re-evaluation of Marx’ work.

 

Public Choice

Downs, A. (1967, Inside Bureaucracy, Boston: Waveland. This monography is one of the few pioneering books on Public Choice. It is theoretically and empirically highly recommendable.