Johannes Wallacher

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Johannes Wallacher (2011)

Johannes Wallacher (born April 13, 1966 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German economist and philosopher and has been president of the Munich School of Philosophy since 2011 .

Life

Johannes Wallacher studied industrial engineering at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) and philosophy at the Munich University of Philosophy. It was in 1994 at the University of Karlsruhe with Georg Bol with a thesis on mathematical models of economic quality assurance for Dr. rer. pole. PhD. Followed in 1999 when Johannes Müller at the Munich School of Philosophy with a thesis on the creation of a permanently-environmentally friendly water use for Dr. phil. PhD.

Since 2006 he has been professor of social sciences and business ethics at the Munich University of Philosophy and member of the Institute for Social Policy there. In 2016 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering ( acatech ). Since 2002 he has been a member of the expert group "World Economy and Social Ethics" of the scientific working group for universal church tasks of the German Bishops' Conference and since 2008 its chairman. Since 2004 he has been a member of the German Justitia et Pax Commission and moderator of its development department. Since 2006 he has been the Scientific Advisory Board of the Journal for Business and Business Ethics. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Technical University of Munich and of the Board of Trustees of the Catholic Foundation University in Munich and the Education Committee of the Catholic Academy in Bavaria as well as the Board of Trustees Munich Forum for Islam eV

Wallacher has been President of the Munich School of Philosophy since September 1, 2011. He is the first president of the college who is not a member of the Jesuit order .

He is married and has three children.

Act

His field of work is business ethics with a special focus on development-friendly global economy and sustainable use of resources. Wallacher's research encompasses questions of globalization and its various manifestations. Find special consideration in his work

  • ethical reflection and political shaping of economic globalization (world trade, global financial markets)
  • Climate Change, Poverty and Justice
  • Basics of business and business ethics and their application.

Development, economy and culture in their mutual connection play a central role in all of the above-mentioned subject areas. Wallacher draws on the Capability Approach of Amartya Sen and the tradition of political economy by Adam Smith . According to Wallacher, doing business is not an end in itself, but has to be judged in terms of its contribution to broad-based increase in prosperity, development and poverty reduction. He makes this particularly clear in the areas of resource use, world trade, finance and climate change. Wallacher's research is shaped by the conviction that an exchange between different scientific disciplines and cooperation with social forces (private sector, civil society, politics and the church) is a key to a deep understanding of the problems and the feasibility of solutions.

Fonts

  • The basis of life is water. Sustainable, environmentally friendly water use as a global challenge. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-17-016107-5 .
  • with Johannes Müller: Development-oriented world economy. Perspectives for a socially and environmentally compatible globalization. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-17-018323-0 .
  • with Tobias Karcher, Michael Reder , Josef Wieland (eds.): Business ethics in the field of tension between cultures and religions , In: Global Solidarity - Steps to a New World Culture, Volume 14, Kohlhammer 2006, ISBN 978-3-17-019532-5
  • with Ottmar Edenhofer , Michael Reder , Hermann Lotze-Campen (eds.): Global but just. Fighting climate change, enabling development. Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-60656-4 .
  • Added value happiness. Plea for humane economic activity. Herbig, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7766-2656-8 .
  • with Matthias Rugel (ed.): The global financial crisis as an ethical challenge. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021650-1 .
  • with Tobias Karcher, Christian Au (Ed.): Ethics in Economy and Companies in Times of Crisis. , In: Global Solidarity - Steps to a New World Culture, Kohlhammer 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021649-5
  • with Ottmar Edenhofer, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Michael Reder, Brigitte Knopf , Johannes Müller (eds.): Climate Change, Justice and Sustainability: Linking Climate and Development Policy. Springer Netherlands, 2012, ISBN 978-94-007-4539-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Wallacher: Basis of life water. Sustainable, environmentally friendly water use as a global challenge. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-17-016107-5 , pp. 164-200.
  2. ^ Johannes Wallacher: Business Ethics . In: Voices of the time 220/2002, No. 4, 2002, ISSN  0039-1492 , pp. 232–244, in particular p. 243 ( online version of the article. (PDF; 55 kB) (no longer available online.) P. 5 , archived from the original on July 7, 2007 ; accessed 21 July 2011 . ).
  3. ^ Johannes Wallacher: Added value happiness. Plea for humane economic activity. Herbig, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7766-2656-8 , pp. 189f.
personal data
SURNAME Wallacher, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein