Martin Booms

Martin Booms is a Professor of Business Ethics at Steinbeis University Berlin and holds academic appointments at the Universities of Bonn and St. Gallen. As Director of the Academy for Social Ethics and Public Culture in Bonn, he bridges academic research with public discourse on ethical challenges in modern society. He specializes in social and economic ethics, digitalization ethics, and modern philosophy (Kant, Schopenhauer, Hannah Arendt).

His research focuses on non-economic foundations of economics, responsibility theory, and the ethical dimensions of work and consumption. He has published extensively on topics like basic income, advertising ethics, and digitalization's societal impacts. His work integrates classical philosophical frameworks with contemporary socio-economic issues.

Key publications include The Crisis of the Free World (2018) and Philosophy of Economics (2013), which explore liberal democracy's challenges and economic value systems. He also edits the Journal Wissenswert and collaborates with institutions like the German Congress of Philosophy.