Virtues and Economics Luk Bouckaert · Knut J. Ims · Peter Rona Editors Art, Spirituality and Economics Liber Amicorum for Laszlo Zsolnai Virtues and Economics Volume 2 Series Editors Peter Rona, University of Oxford Laszlo Zsolnai, Corvinus University of Budapest Editorial Advisory Board Helen Alford, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (“Angelicum”), Rome, Italy Luk Bouckaert, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Luigino Bruni, LUMSA University, Rome and Sophia University Institute, Loppiano Georges Enderle, University of Notre Dame, USA Carlos Hoevel, Catholic University of Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina John Loughlin, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford and Von Hügel Institute David W. Miller, Princeton University, USA Sanjoy Mukherjee, Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management Shillong, India Mike Thompson, GoodBrand, London, CEIBS Shanghai, and University of Victoria, Vancouver, Canada Johan Verstraeten, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Stefano Zamagni, University of Bologna, and Johns Hopkins University – SAIS Europe and Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Italy The series is dedicated to virtue ethics and economics. Its purpose is to relocate economic theory to a domain where the connection between the virtues and economic decisions, as that connection is actually experienced in everyday life, is an organic component of theory rather than some sort of an optionally added ingredient. The goal is to help develop a virtue-based economic theory which connects virtues with the contents of economic activities of individuals, unincorporated and incorporated economic agents. The primary context is Catholic Social Teaching but other faith traditions (especially Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism) will also be explored for their construction of virtues in economic action. Special attention will be made to regulatory and policy issues in promoting economic justice. The series connects virtue ethics with the core of economic theory and practice. It examines the basic and irreducible intentionality of human activities concerned with the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. It considers the incommensurability of values as the central problem of economic decision making and examines whether that problem can be overcome by any means other than practical reason. This series will cover high quality edited volumes and monographs. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15627 Luk Bouckaert • Knut J. Ims • Peter Rona Editors Art, Spirituality and Economics Liber Amicorum for Laszlo Zsolnai Editors Luk Bouckaert Knut J. Ims Catholic University of Leuven Department of Strategy and Management Leuven, Belgium Norwegian School of Economics Bergen, Norway Peter Rona Blackfriars Hall University of Oxford St. Giles, Oxford, UK This book contains permissions for re-use of figures ISSN 2520-1794 ISSN 2520-1808 (electronic) Virtues and Economics ISBN 978-3-319-75063-7 ISBN 978-3-319-75064-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75064-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018934408 © Springer International Publishing AG 2018 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer International Publishing AG part of Springer Nature. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland Contents Part I Introduction 1 Laszlo Zsolnai, Friend and Moral Scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Luk Bouckaert, Knut J. Ims, and Peter Rona Part II The Power of Art 2 The Essential, the Beautiful and the Economic: The Brotzeit by Eduard Grützner and Zsolnai’s Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Carlos Hoevel 3 The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci and the Links to Food, Conviviality, Sharing, and Spirituality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Antonio Tencati 4 A Dog. Just a Dog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Josep M. Lozano 5 The Light of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Katalin Illes 6 Friedensreich Hundertwasser – The Five Skins of the Ecological Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Ove Jakobsen and Vivi M. L. Storsletten 7 Antarctica – Nature’s Awesome Artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Eleanor O’Higgins 8 Az Öreg Halász (The Old Fisherman): An Essay for Zsolnai László . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Mike Thompson v vi Contents Part III Beyond Rational Ethics 9 From Ethics to Spirituality: Laszlo Zsolnai on Human Motivations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Zsolt Boda 10 Angels from the Future. The Voice of Coming Generations . . . . . . . . 97 Luk Bouckaert and Rita Ghesquiere 11 The Aesthetics of Energy Resilience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Paul Shrivastava 12 On the Experience of Beauty in Nature, in Mathematics and Science, and in Spirituality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Peter Pruzan 13 Management and Liberal Arts: A Transformational Odyssey with Rabindranath Tagore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Sanjoy Mukherjee Part IV Economics and the Creation of Meaning 14 The Capitalistic Religion: Old Questions, New Insights . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Luigino Bruni 15 Nature, Economics, and Scream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Knut J. Ims 16 The Idea of Corporate Social Responsibility and the Responses of Economic Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Stefano Zamagni 17 What Can Sense Making Economies Learn from the GNH of Bhutan? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Hendrik Opdebeeck 18 Innovation in the Intervention into Nature by Legal Means . . . . . . . 225 Dániel Deák About the Authors Zsolt Boda is a researcher in political science and business ethics. He holds an MA in economics and a Ph.D. in political science both from the Corvinus University of Budapest. He is a research chair and director of the Institute of Political Science, at the Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is also part-time associate professor at the Business Ethics Center of the Corvinus University of Budapest. He has been teaching at Paris 6 (France), the University of Nordland (Norway) as well as at the European University ‘Viadrina’ (Germany). He taught courses at various European universities in the programmes of the Community of European Management Schools. His research focuses on policy studies as well as the problems of global governance, development and international ethics. Luk Bouckaert is emeritus professor of ethics at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). He is a philosopher and an economist by training. His research and pub- lications fall within the fields of business ethics and spirituality. In 1987 he founded with some colleagues the interdisciplinary Centre for Economics and Ethics at the University of Leuven. In 2000 he started the SPES Forum (Spirituality in Economics and Society) and in 2004 the international European SPES Forum which he chaired as president until 2014. He wrote several books in Dutch. Recent publications in English include Spirituality as a Public Good (coedited with L. Zsolnai, 2007), Frugality: Rebalancing Material and Spiritual Values in Economic Life (coedited with H. Opdebeeck and L. Zsolnai, 2008), Imagine Europe (coedited with J. Eynikel, 2009), Respect and Economic Democracy (coedited with Pasquale Arena, 2010), The Palgrave Handbook of Spirituality and Business (coedited with L. Zsolnai, 2011) and Business, Ethics and Peace, (coedited with M. Chatterji, 2015). Luigino Bruni is professor of economics at the LUMSA in Rome and at the Sophia University of Loppiano (Florence). His research has covered many areas ranging from microeconomics, ethics and economics, history of economic thought, method- ology of economics, sociality and happiness in economics. Recently, he has demon- strated great interest on the civil economy and economic-related categories, such as vii viii About the Authors reciprocity and gratuitousness. Luigino Bruni’s current research focuses on the role of intrinsic motivation in economic and civil life. His latest book is Civil Economy: Another Idea of the Market, with S. Zamagni, Agenda, London, 2016. Daniel Deak is full professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest. He teaches and does research inside and outside Hungary in the subject of comparative and international business law and taxation. He is the founding president of the Hungarian national branch of International Fiscal Association. In addition to be active as a scholar, from time to time he is also invited by Hungarian or European public agencies – including Hungarian ministries and the EU Directorate Generals of TAXUD and MARKT – to do expert opinion while being expected to promote Hungarian and community legislation. In recent years, he has been deeply involved in civil movements to act for the safeguard of interests in the Hungarian system of higher education. Rita Ghesquiere (°1947) is emeritus professor of comparative literature at the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium). She holds a degree in philol- ogy and has written her Ph.D. on phenomenology and literary theory. Her research and publications fall within the scope of the history of European literature, juvenile fiction and spirituality. She published a Dutch literary companion on the history of European literature: Literaire Verbeelding. Een geschiedenis van de Europese liter- atuur tot 1750 and Literaire Verbeelding. Een geschiedenis van de Europese liter- atuur en cultuur vanaf 1750 (2 vol. Leuven, Acco 2006 and 2008). Het Verschijnsel Jeugdliteratuur (20007) now revised as Jeugdliteratuur in perspectief (2009) is a well-known manual on children’s literature. Together with Knut Ims she is the edi- tor of Heroes and Anti-heroes: European Literature and the Ethics of Leadership (2010). Carlos Hoevel has a Ph.D. in philosophy (UCA, Argentina) and Master of Arts in the social sciences (University of Chicago). He is professor of history of economic and political ideas, economic ethics and philosophy of economics in the Department of Economics of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina and of social phi- losophy in the Department of Philosophy of the University Santo Tomás de Aquino. He is also a director and researcher of the Center of Studies in Economy and Culture and of the Journal Cultura Económica. Some of his publications include The Economy of Recognition: Person, Market and Society in Antonio Rosmini, Springer, London, 2013; ‘Spirituality and international development’, in Zsolnai and Flanagan, Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality and Society, Routledge, London, 2017. Katalin Illes is a principal lecturer and acting head of department, Leadership and Professional Development, at the University of Westminster in London. She is a passionate promoter of transformational change through leadership development. Her recent publications include ‘The role of spirituality in business education’, in Society and Business Review, 2015 Vol. 10; ‘Spiritual-based entrepreneurship: About the Authors ix Hindu and Christian examples’, in Chatterji, M. and Zsolnai, L.(eds) Ethical Leadership, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016; and ‘Contemplation in leadership and lead- ership development’, in Society and Economy (forthcoming) with P. Jennings. Knut J. Ims is professor in business ethics at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in Bergen. He has a Ph.D. from the School of Economics and Legal Science, Gothenburg University, in 1987. He is active member of the business ethics faculty group of (CEMS) – Global Alliance for Management Education – and has been teaching at a number of European universities. He is fellow of the European SPES Institute and has been visiting scholar at Corvinus University of Budapest; Universidad Catholica Argentina (UCA); Weatherhead School of Management, Cleveland; University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne; and University of Oslo. He has been the chairman of Center for Ethics and Economics at NHH and taught courses at Ph.D. level from 1983 and courses at MBA level including CEMS blocked seminars from 2001. He has published a number of books, book chapters and articles in international journals. Ove  Jakobsen is professor in ecological economics at the Nord University Business School. He holds master degrees in marketing, business administration and philosophy and a Dr. Oecon. degree from NHH (Norwegian School of Economics). His teaching and research interest are process philosophy, creativity and utopian thinking in the context of ecological economics. He has published a great number of books and articles in ecological economics and business ethics internationally. Josep M. Lozano was awarded a Ph.D. in philosophy by the University of Barcelona and a degree in theology by the Theology Faculty of Catalonia. He also holds a degree in executive management from ESADE Business School, Barcelona. He is currently full professor at the Department of Social Sciences at ESADE and senior researcher in CSR at the Institute for Social Innovation. His academic and professional activity focuses on the fields of CSR, ethics, leadership, values and spirituality. Josep M. Lozano has published many articles on these issues, and he is a frequent newspaper contributor. Sanjoy Mukherjee is associate professor of business ethics and corporate social responsibility at the Indian Institute of Management Shillong. He is the chairperson of the Institute’s Annual International Sustainability Conference (SUSCON). A mechanical engineering graduate from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, he did his post-graduation in management from IIM Calcutta and Ph.D. from Jadavpur University. After a corporate experience of nearly 7 years, he had a long stint as a faculty at the Management Centre for Human Values of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. His areas of interest and research include enlightened lead- ership, management by human values, Indian ethos in management, management and liberal arts and alternative sources and methods of learning. He has lectured and presented in conferences worldwide. For nearly a decade he was the editor-in-chief