Applied Ethics at Corvinus Business Ethics Center
Ignace Haaz published an article on “Applied Ethics at Corvinus Business Ethics Center” Journal of Ethics in Higher Education 2023 December, pp. 167–174. https://doi.org/10.26034/fr.jehe.2023.4638
Publications
The 30th Anniversary of The Business Ethics Center
Máté Kovács published a report on the ocaasion of the 30th Anniversary of The Business Ethics Center in Corvinus News on December 18, 2023. https://www.uni-corvinus.hu/post/hir/flourishing-of-human-and-non-human-life-on-earth-cannot-be-achieved-by-self-interested-behaviour/?lang=en
Caring Management in the New Economy
Madhumita Chatterji published a review article on our “Caring Management in the New Economy, Socially Responsible Behaviour Through Spirituality” Journal of Management, Spirituality, and Relgion 2020. May 24. https://doi.org/10.1080/14766086.2020.1765192
On Spirituality in Society and the Professions
Larry Culliford published a review article on our “The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions”, Journal of the Study of Spirituality 13 Feb 2020. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20440243.2020.1729045
Steps to Ecological Civilization
On October 28, 2025 Laszlo Zsolnai gave a lecture on “Steps to Ecological Civilization: The Contribution of Buddhism” at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto. In his presentation, Laszlo Zsolnai emphasized the role of the self in making actions. He argues that serving nature, society, and future generations economic agents should de-emphasize the self and develop compassion for the suffering all human and non-human beings. The noble ethos of Buddhism can help… Read More »Steps to Ecological Civilization
Planet Positive Economy
Laszlo Zsolnai was keynote speaker at the 31st Annual Conference of the International Sustainable Development Research Society in July 8-12, 2025 at the Corvinus University of Budapest. His lecture was about the Planet Positive Economy. In his lecture Laszlo Zsolnai introduced the concept of Planet Positive Economy and presented two theorems about it. The Impossibility Theorem says that planet positive economy cannot be achieved if economic agents follow materialistic value orientation which prioritize money, possession,… Read More »Planet Positive Economy
Fostering Consciousness in Business Education
On May 27, 2025 Laszlo Zsolnai served as invited speaker in the Global Alliance for Conscious Business Education Conference. His talk was entitled as “Fostering Consciousness in Business Education”. In his talk, Laszlo Zsolnai stressed that the strong materialistic value orientation of mainstream economics and business does not help students to find deeper meaning and higher purpose in their profession. He argued that we should redesign our curricula, renew our teaching methods, and introduce meaningful… Read More »Fostering Consciousness in Business Education
Alternative Economics
In the Spring semester of 2025 Tamas Veress, Andras Ocsai, and Laszlo Zsolnai taught a course on Alternative Economics in the Jesuit Interdisciplinary College in Budapest. The course covered the following topics: (1) Foundations of “Mainstream” Economics, (2) Ecological Economics, (3) The Economics of Pope Francis, (4) Buddhist Economics, (5) De-growth Economics, (6) Community Economics, (7) Behavioral Economics, (8) Feminist Economics, (9) Wellbeing Economics, and (10) Alternative Economic Initiatives in Hungary. Students of the course… Read More »Alternative Economics
Interdisciplinary Business Ethics in Hungary
The paper on “Interdisciplinary Business Ethics in Hungary” by Laszlo Zsolnai was published in the book Cowton, C., von Weltzien Høivik, H., Jeurissen, R., Jansen, B. (Eds): Researching and Teaching Business Ethics in Europe. Springer, pp. 95-112. The paper presents the history of business ethics in Hungary through the case of the Business Ethics Center of Corvinus University of Budapest. The Center introduced business ethics in the country in the early 1990s and since then… Read More »Interdisciplinary Business Ethics in Hungary
Spirituality and Business in the Anthropocene
My book on “Spirituality and Business in the Anthropocene” has been published by Palgrave-Macmillan in London in 2025. This contributed volume collects innovative papers by scholars from Europe, India, and the USA to investigate how spirituality can contribute to renewing business in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene era. Using insights from Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Existential Humanism the book explores the materialist worldviews in the Anthropocene and their relation to crises. Further, it… Read More »Spirituality and Business in the Anthropocene