Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Business Ethics, Corporate Ethics, grade: 1,0, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften ), language: English, abstract: Whether the economic system of capitalism will survive at its present form is uncertain. In the face of the increasing economic crisis, voices for an alternative system are getting louder. Especially a more ethical and more social economy is requested. However, is a more social economy possible?