“The Virtues and Vices in Economics and Business” international workshop was organized by the Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Leuven in cooperation with the European SPES in June 19–20, 2015 in Leuven, Belgium.
Inspired by the spiritual humanism of the European personalist movement and applying the virtue ethics tradition, the participants of the workshop aimed to develop new models for encouraging virtuous actions in business and in economic policy.
Presentations included the following:
Helen Alford (Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas – Angelicum, Rome): Hollowing-out of Meaning: Virtue ethics in the “Blueprint for Better Business”
Knut Ims (NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen): Ancient Virtues and Positive Psychology
Johan Verstraeten (Catholic University of Leuven): Beyond Morality: Spirituality as Precondition for Virtuous Leadership
Luk Bouckaert (Catholic University of Leuven): Virtues of Good Leadership in the Light of Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Judgment
Peter Rona (Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford): Intentionality and the Objects of Economics
Toon Vandevelde (Catholic University of Leuven): Thomas Piketty on Inequality
Laszlo Zsolnai (Corvinus University of Budapest): Prudence in Management and Economic Wisdom
Thomas Dienberg (Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule, Munster): Vices and Virtues in economics: About Community and Contemplation
Kevin Jackson (Free University of Brussels & Fordham University, New York): Mindfulness and the Inner Motivation to Be Ethical
Luigino Bruni (LUMSA University, Rome): Vulnerability and Immunity in Economic Life
Carlos Hoevel (Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina): Opportunities and Obstacles to Civil Economy: An Overview and the Latin American Case