Manuel Woersdoerfer, Ph.D.

Research Interests

• Engineering and computer ethics (especially big data ethics and information privacy).
• Business (ethics) and human rights.
• (Political) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and corporate citizenship.
• Multi-stakeholder CSR-initiatives (especially Equator Principals framework and U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights).
• Sustainable finance and finance ethics.
• Climate ethics/justice (with special focus on financial institutions and climate change mitigation).
• Constitutional economics, neoliberalism and social market economy.
• Behavioural and happiness economics, economic psychology and neuroeconomics.
• Economic policy (with a special focus on European integration and politics).

Research Websites

• Personal Website
• Climate Science Center
• Academia.edu
• Researchgate
• SSRN

Personal Information

Education

• PhD, Business Ethics/History of Economic Thought, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Germany (2011)
• Master of Arts, Philosophy & Economics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth/Germany (2007)
• Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy & Economics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth/Germany (2004)