zfwu Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik

Sophie Schönberger's text on ›frozen time‹ deals with drastic changes in ideas of ownership and their effects in discourses on the reparation of historical injustice after 1945 using the example of the restitution of cultural assets.

In hardly any other area is the idea of property so symbolically charged as in the restitution of cultural property. At the same time, these symbolic attributions can take on quite contradictory forms. In addition to the formal legal attribution...

In the current discourse on economic ethics, the idea of cooperative ownership is often cited as a positive example of a morally desirable form of economic activity. However, this idea has been contested from the beginning. An engaging philosophical...

John Stuart Mill considered the private property system in 19th century England to be disastrous but reformable. He argued that the exclusive appropriation of land could not be justified in the same way as ownership of reproducible goods and...

The paper introduces two recent contributions by Karen Bradshaw and Sarah Vanuxem, who argue in favour of non-human property, with ecosystems as owners of land. Based on this, the own concept of ›universal commons‹ is elaborated, building on the...