Dissertations

If you are interested in being supervised by Thomas Beschorner, his lectures Corporate Social Responsibility in Theorie und Praxis (Master) and Ethics of Financial Services (Master) provide a good foundation.

Please contact Thomas Beschorner with an idea for a topic.

The Chair Kolmar supervises doctoral dissertations working on the following topics:

• Normative economics
• Economic behavior from behavioral, psychological, evolutionary and neuroscientific perspectives
• Theories of justice, especially intergenerational justice and climate crisis, animal and ecosystem ethics and biodiversity crisis
• Theories and empirical research on happiness and the successful life
• Buddhism and yogic traditions of Hinduism and neuroscience
• Eastern and Western virtue ethics, empirical research, and their implications for a life-enhancing economy
• Critique of the economic mainstream, especially the conception of man and epistemic and ontological normativity
• Economic conflict and competition theory
• Economics of the climate crisis

If you are interested in being supervised by Martin Kolmar, his lectures Ökonomie des Glücks (Bachelor), Economics and Ethics, Modern Theories of Justice and Beyond Homo Economicus (Master) provide a good foundation.

Your thematic interest should fall into one of the above areas. Please contact Martin Kolmar with an idea for a topic.

If you are interested in being supervised by Florian Wettstein, his lecture Business Ethics in Turbulent Times (Master) provides a good foundation.

Please contact Florian Wettstein with an idea for a topic.