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Hunger-Macher? Fehl-Alarm! Zur Chronologie einer wirtschaftsethischen Intervention

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Im Jahr 2012 äußerten zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen den Verdacht, dass die Geschäfte von Indexfonds auf den Terminmärkten für Agrarrohstoffe die Hungerkrisen in armen Ländern hervorgerufen oder verstärkt hätten. Sie erhoben radikale Forderungen, diese Art von Agrarspekulation rundherum zu verbieten oder zumindest regulativ stark einzuschränken. Dieser Artikel zeichnet die Debatte nach und erläutert, warum dieser zivilgesellschaftliche Alarm als Fehl-Alarm einzustufen war - und aus heutiger Sicht nach wie vor so einzustufen ist. Diskutiert werden die ökonomischen und wirtschaftsethischen Argumente, die seinerzeit gegen diese Forderungen ins Feld geführt wurden. Zudem wird die Frage aufgeworfen, wie die Selbstkorrekturkräfte des zivilgesellschaftlichen Sektors gestärkt werden könnten.

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  • Pies, Ingo, 2022. "Hunger-Macher? Fehl-Alarm! Zur Chronologie einer wirtschaftsethischen Intervention," Discussion Papers 2022-07, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Chair of Economic Ethics.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:mlucee:202207
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    Keywords

    Ordonomik; Wirtschaftsethik; Indexfonds; zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen; Agrarspekulation; Hunger; Diskursversagen; ordonomics; business ethics; index funds; civil society organizations; agricultural speculation; hunger; discourse failure;
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    • D84 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Expectations; Speculations
    • G13 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Contingent Pricing; Futures Pricing
    • Q11 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis; Prices
    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy

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