In 2018 the book “Art, Spirituality and Economics” edited by Luk Bouckaert, Knut Ims, and Peter Rona was published by Springer.
This volume celebrates the work of Laszlo Zsolnai, a researcher and scholar in the field of the ethical and spiritual aspects of economic life, who has made contributions to the connection between ethics, spirituality, aesthetics, and economic concerned with the ethical, spiritual, and aesthetic context within which economics as a social studies discipline should be situated in order to avoid the sort of dehumanizing consequences that theories based on utility maximization and rational choice necessarily entail.
It presents the economic activities of human beings not as some sort of preordained obedience to universal laws that operate independently of other human concerns, but, rather, as a part of the human desire for the Aristotelian good life. It looks at the various considerations—moral, spiritual, and aesthetic—that take part in the formation of economic decisions in sharp contrast with theories that purport to explain economic
phenomena solely on the basis of utility maximization.
The contents of the book are as follows:
Luk Bouckaert (Catholic University of Leuven), Knut Ims (NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen) and Peter Rona (University of Oxford): Laszlo Zsolnai, Friend and Moral Scientist
Carlos Hoevel (Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina): The Essential, the Beautiful and the Economic—The Brotzeit by Eduard Grutzner and Zsolnai’s Philosophy
Antonio Tencati (University of Brescia and Bocconi University, Milan): The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci and the Links to Food, Conviviality, Sharing, and Spirituality
Josep Lozano (ESADE Business School, Barcelona): A Dog. Just a Dog
Katalin Illes (University of Westminster, London): The Light of the World
Ove Jakobsen and Vivi Storsletten (Nord University, Bodo): Friedensreich Hundertwasser—The Five Skins of the Ecological Man
Eleanor O’Higgins (University College Dublin and London School of Economics): Antarctica—Nature’s Awesome Artwork
Mike Tompson (China Europe International Business School, Shanghai and University of Victoria, Vancouver): The Old Fisherman—An Essay for Zsolnai Laszlo
Zsolt Boda (Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Corvinus University of Budapest): From Ethics to Spirituality—Laszlo Zsolnai on Human Motivations
Luk Bouckaert (Catholic University of Leuven) and Rita Ghesquiere (Catholic University of Leuven): Angels from the Future. The Voice of Coming Generations
Paul Shrivastava (Pennsylvania State University and ICN Business School, Nancy): The Aesthetics of Energy Resilience
Peter Pruzan (Copenhagen Business School and Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning): On the Experience of Beauty in Nature, in Mathematics and Science, and in Spirituality
Sanjoy Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Management Shillong): Management and Liberal Arts—A Transformational Odyssey with Rabindranath Tagore
Luigino Bruni (LUMSA University, Rome): The Capitalistic Religion —Old Questions, New Insights
Knut Ims (NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen): Nature, Economics, and Scream
Stefano Zamagni (University of Bologna and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences): The Idea of Corporate Social Responsibility and the Responses of Economic Theory
Hendrik Opdebeeck (University of Antwerp): What Can Sense Making Economies Learn from the GNH of Bhutan?
Daniel Deak (Corvinus University of Budapest): Innovation in the Intervention into Nature by Legal Means