Ethics in Economics, Business, and Economic Policy

In 1989, for the first time, the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) assembled European research institutes for economics and ethics or business ethics at the Nijenrode Universiteit voor Bedrijfskun­ de (Nijenrode Business SchooD in the Netherlands. In 1990 this Meeting of European Research Institutes was held at the Centrum voor Econo­ mie en Ethiek (Centre for Economics and Ethics), Katholieke Universi­ teit Leuven in Belgium. In 1991 the institutes met in the "Hannover Meeting of European Re­ search Institutes on Economics and Ethics. 3rd Annual EBEN Meeting of Business Ethics Research Centres in Europe" in the Forschungsinstitut fur Philosophie Hannover (Research Institute for Philosophy, Hanno­ ver) at Hannover, Germany, on April 19th and 20th, 1991. This volume publishes the papers and discussion summaries of the Hannover Meeting in which sixteen institutes from ten European countries took part. I should like to thank all those who helped to make this conference a success, to my co-workers at the Research Institute of Philosophy Hannover, particularly to Anna Maria Hauk and Annette Kleinfeld­ Wernicke, to those who wrote the discussion summaries, and to EBEN and its president, Henk van Luijk, who took the initiative to institution­ alize these European meetings of research institutes working in the field between economics, management science, and philosophical ethics.