The interplay of incentives and ideas: An intellectual journey from order economics through order ethics to ordonomics

Ingo Pies

No 2025-08, Discussion Papers from Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Chair of Economic Ethics

Abstract: This article introduces the ordonomic research program and explains its methodological roots. It shows how a German-speaking line of tradition has developed from Order Economics (Ordnungsökonomik) through Order Ethics (Ordnungsethik) to Ordonomics (Ordonomik). Ordonomics integrates central ideas of its predecessors into a theory of societal learning processes, which regards institutions and ideas as key variables. Using a three-level model, the connections between rule-following, rule-setting, and rule-finding are analyzed. The aim is a functional utilization of systemic constraints for the realization of moral desiderata. Ten Case studies and three appendices demonstrate practical applications of the ordonomic approach to institutional and ideational ethics.

Keywords: order economics; order ethics; ordonomics; moral paradox of modernity; societal learning processes; institutional ethics; ideational ethics; ordo responsibility; moral commitments as a factor of production; monstrosity imagination; mandated schizophrenia; Ordnungsökonomik; Ordnungsethik; Ordonomik; Moralparadoxon der Moderne; gesellschaftliche Lernprozesse; Institutionenethik; Ideenethik; Ordnungsverantwortung; Moral als Produktionsfaktor; Monstrositäts-Imagination; verordnete Schizophrenie (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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