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by Christopher Gohl, Nils Goldschmidt, Ulrich Hemel and Jeffrey Sachs

Our inner peace is increasingly strained. How we deal with climate change, digital transformation and migration, and whether we generate and distribute prosperity sustainably, will be decisive for a prosperous, peaceful coexistence. We propose that the economic order of Germany, the Social Market Economy, might be best suited for securing social peace and sustainable development in the 21st century – not only in Germany across all party lines, but everywhere in the world. As a form of responsibly regulated capitalism, it has a proven track record of ensuring that people live well.

The climate crisis is a challenge of global scale. Every region is affected and every country must contribute to solving this existential challenge. Obiora Ike, Professor of Ethics and Intercultural Studies at the Godfrey Okoye University in Enugu (Nigeria) and currently Executive Director of the Global Ethics Centre in Geneva, recently spoke at the the World Council of Churches on this issue from an African perspective. He points out:“Listening to African voices by reflecting on its past traditions, wealth of values, priceless qualities and cultural-rational reasoning in respect of preservation of the environment would bring some contribution to this ongoing global dialogue and search for ecological sustainability promoted by the SDG Agenda 2030 of the United Nations.

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Claus Dierksmeier, Professor for Globalization Ethics at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, analyses that after the international financial and debt crisis a paradigm shift from mechanistic to humanistic management theories took place. In this context, we see a turning away from the fictional construct of homo oeconomicus to a more realistic anthropology in economics. This methodological turn brings about both the opportunity and the necessity of re-orienting management theory to the idea of human dignity (this article is published online with Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License).