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ECONOMICS
AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
30 June - 11 July, 1997
Course Director: Dr. László
Zsolnai (Business Ethics Center, Budapest University of
Economic Sciences and Netherlands Institute for
Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences)
Resource Persons: Herman E. Daly
(University of Maryland, USA)
Warwick Fox (Murdoch University, Australia)
Michael Jacobs (London School of Economics)
András Lányi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Boldizsár Nagy (Eötvös Lóránd University)
István Rév (CEU)
Diana Schumacher (The Schumacher Society, England)
Zoltán Szõcs (CEU)
László Zsolnai (Budapest University of Economic Sciences)
The main goal of the Summer School is
to provide new insights in the converging issues of economics, ecology,
and ethics. The conflicting demands of economic efficiency and the preservation
of natural systems generate hard ethical dilemmas. These dilemmas are especially
relevant in Eastern and Central Europe where the economic and political
transition present additional social and environmental problems.
The Summer School is planned to
be for two weeks in early July 1997. The program is consisted of short,
well-focused courses taught by prominent Western and Hungarian scholars.
The list of the proposed courses
is as follows:
( 1 ) Ecology & Economics Herman
E. Daly, University of Maryland, USA
(2) The Legacy of E.F. Schumacher Diana
Schumacher, The Schumacher Society, England
(3) Environmental Valuation and Beyond
Michael Jacobs, London School of Economics,
England
(4) Models of Economic Ethics László
Zsolnai, Budapest University of Economic Sciences
(5) Theories of Environmental Ethics
Warwick Fox, Murdoch University, Australia
(6) Environmental Problems from an Anthropological
Perspective István Rév, Central
European University
(7) Ethics in Organic Agriculture Zoltán
Szõcs, Central European University
(8) Future Generations and Global Commons
Boldizsár Nagy, Eötvös Loránd University
(9) Political Democracy and Environmentalism
András Lányi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Among the participants of the Summer
School working groups will be formed to discuss special issues in more
depth and explore opportunities for future research projects. Planned topics
for the working groups are responsibility, communitarianism, greening of
business, and post-modernity.
In addition leading Hungarian
philosopher, artists, and environmental activists will be invited for evening
discussions on related issues. (Mihály Vajda, Péter Nádas,
Gábor Karátson, and János Vargha).
The proposed summer school targets
audience of young faculty members and/or post-graduate students in economics,
environmental sciences, philosophy, sociology, law, and political science
with a strong interest in ethics.
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