A book on the need to do economy in a caring way in the global crisis. In this situation, doing care and doing economy are mutually dependent. The context that is described is a multifaceted and complex one. It concerns social care, state action and the responsibility of companies. All actors are involved in caring and managing within an ecological framework for a development that is beneficial to life both locally and globally.

Professor Dr. Wolf Rainer Wendt teaches at the Faculty of Social Work at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) Stuttgart, Germany.