Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 2,1, University of Potsdam (Lehrstuhl fur internationale Politik), course: State Failure, Crisis and Conflict Management, 32 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: When policy makers from developed countries gather "to form the world," for a long time military forces were seen as the only ones of impact in areas of war and crisis. They were massively funded and specifically equipped to fulfill their tasks for the best possible outcome. But...

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Economy - Environment economics, grade: 1,5, University of Abertay Dundee, 31 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Whether waste is an economic good or bad is already not clear decided (although this is changing in the last years) - and probably can not as well. Instead this depends on different assumptions that have to be made and about the way how a system is installed. But as a main thesis, the essay proclaims and analyses the 'hierarchy theory' which focuses on the "R's" - reduction, reuse, recycling and recovery. The...

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Psychology - Work, Business, Organisational and Economic Psychology, grade: 1,00, Free University of Berlin (FB Erziehungswissenschaften und Psychologie, Wirtschafts- und Sozialpsychologie), course: Wirtschaftspsychologie, 33 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Former classic economic theories mainly strengthened the concept of the 'homo economicus', who strongly behaves economical and rational. Nowadays however, some argue this supports not the reality, and so academic research progressed. For this, laureate Kahneman et al...

Master's Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Middle- and South America, grade: 2,6, Free University of Berlin (Latin America Institute / Department for International Politics ), course: International Relations, 125 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: A devaluation of the Peso in 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst recession for over half a century. Since then the nation made an impressive recovery on many scenes ranging from economics to society. Also the housing market has improved dramatically...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich BWL - Unternehmensethik, Wirtschaftsethik, Note: 1,25, Universitat Hamburg, Veranstaltung: Groe Hausarbeit, 34 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: ...] Heute herrscht mehrheitlich die Uberzeugung, dass die Gesellschaft das Recht hat, moralisch akzeptables Verhalten von der Wirtschaft und ihren Akteuren zu erwarten. Viele dahinter liegende Fragen bleiben jedoch offen: Was ist unter spezifischen Umstanden 'moralisch richtiges Verhalten' oder 'ethisches Handeln'? Was genau ist das 'Gute' und zu welchem Preis oder anderen...