The global financial and economic crisis continues to impact the international economy. The battle over the effects of the crisis and how to address its causes is ongoing. The existing mechanisms of the financial world have come under repeated criticism and there have been many calls for change. In this context the question of common elements in the economic concepts of different cultural areas is raised. In a series of conferences the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung dealt with the commonalities of the principles of the Social Market Economy and those of an Islamic economic concept.