Macht ökonomische Bildung die Marktwirtschaft sozialer?

Market economy is normatively ambivalent. It justifies individual self-interest; however it also provides an at least partly respectable level of satisfaction of needs. Economics education plays an interesting role concerning this ambivalence as it changes the relation between these two sides. An increase in economic competences seems to cause a shift from intentionalistic to systemic concepts and along with that a shift from deontological to consequentialist attitudes. In this respect it is important to notice that these shifts are caused by economic learning in educational context and not through every-day experience. With economic education thus increases the acceptance of market economy and the rejection of some deontological claims.