Solidarity in Open Societies

At a time of increasing fragmentation, growing social tension and global forced migration, solidarity is more than ever an endangered social resource. In this volume, scientists from different disciplines analyze the idea of solidarity, its analytical content as well as practical scope and limits for pluralistic and cosmopolitan societies. At a time of increasing fragmentation, growing social tension and global forced migration, solidarity is more than ever an endangered social resource. In this volume, scientists from different disciplines analyze the idea of solidarity, its analytical content as well as practical scope and limits for pluralistic and cosmopolitan societies. Contents Theoretical Foundations.- Applications Target Groups Lecturers, students, and research scientists of economic policy and ethics Political decision-makers The Editors Prof. Dr. Jörg Althammer is an economist and teaches economic ethics and social policy at the Faculty of Economics at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Prof. Dr. Berhard Neumärker teaches Economic Policy at the Faculty of Economics and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Freiburg. He is Director of the Department of Economic Policy and Constitutional Economic Theory in the faculty. Prof. Dr. Ursula Nothelle-Wildfeuer is a theologian and teaches Christian Social Ethics at the University of Freiburg.