ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book proposes a concept of the epistemology of business ethics and of the task of ethical analysis in economics and business. Business ethics can be conceived as a critical reflection over prevailing technical and economic 'conceptual schemes'. The chapter focuses on the impure nature of economic rationality and it considers the support of human needs and self-actualization as the basic significance and importance of economics. In this analysis of the epistemology of business ethics the book focuses on the relation between business ethics and the epistemology of economic sciences. The market place as conceived in neoclassic economics based on strategic goal maximization and opportunistic instrumentalism is founded on a narrow concept of human exchange and practice because it does not take into account the inter subjective dimensions of communicative rationality.
