Jeder seines Glückes Schmied? Thesen der Christlichen Sozialethik zu einigen Ansätzen der Glücksforschung in der Wirtschaftswissenschaft / Is Everyone The Architect of His Own Fortune?

Spieker Manfred

ORDO. Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, 2010, vol. 61, issue 1, 191-204

Abstract: Happiness research in economic science focuses on life satisfaction and happiness instead of gross domestic product and per capita income, since the former is not guaranteed by material wealth. It dreams of being able to scale fortune by using an electronic “hedonometer” or a “brain scan”. Insofar it adheres to the classical methodology of measuring and comparing, which is not appropriate to the subject of happiness. But, in defining the parameters of happiness, there are several common interests with Christian Social Ethics: The interpersonal relations, above all the family, self-employment with a sufficient income, and a liberal political environment are of similar importance - although Christian Social Ethics do not focus on happiness but on the success of human life. If this object is not to be lost sight of, the topos of the Homo oeconomicus has to be amended by the one of the Homo benevolens.

Date: 2010
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