Last week, we held a workshop at Utrecht University on the book ‘Living with the Invisible Hand’ by Waheed Hussain. This was one of the most memorable book workshops I’ve attended, despite the absence of the author. Waheed passed away a few years ago at a tragically young age (you can read his obituary here:…

Politiek filosoof prof. dr. Rutger Claassen deelde op 15 november 2021 zijn expertise over maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen met de Vaste Commissie voor Financiën. In zijn pleidooi en begeleidend position paper stelt hij dat aandeelhouders van alle bedrijven in toenemende mate een maatschappelijke verantwoordelijkheid hebben, zo ook de overheid. De aanleiding voor het rondetafelgesprek was het jaarverslag…

24/09/2021 Fall Seminar I: Corporate Governance in the EU and US – reform or stagnation? 13/10/2021 Fall Seminar II: Kant & Hegel on the corporation 13/10/2021 Fall Seminar III: Kant & Hegel on the corporation 08/12/2021 Fall Seminar IV on Jean-Philippe Robé’s Property, Power and Politics

In the new Working Paper The legitimacy of corporations in a liberal democracy, Prof. Rutger Claassen discusses the nature and role of corporations from several political-thepretical perspectives. These perspectives each contain their own understanding of the societal function of corporations and offer different starting points for policy reform. The Working Paper is written in the context…

Call for Papers – MANCEPT Workshops 2021 Political Theory of the Business Corporation Conveners: Chi Kwok Rutger Claassen Tully Rector As the power of large business corporations like Google, Walmart, and Shell increasingly appears to threaten liberal democracy, political theorists have begun to theorize the role of the business firm in democratic societies. This recent…

04/02/2021 Seminar I: Political Theory of the Corporation 04/03/2021 Seminar II: Corporate Governance 01/04/2021 Seminar III: Corporations and Capitalism 28/04/2021 Seminar IV: Corporate Finance and the Corporation 03/06/2021 Seminar V: Comparative Political Theory of the Corporation

In hun artikel ‘Het neoliberalisme gaat op de schop‘ (Financieel Dagblad, 6 maart 2021) bespreken Anna Dijkman en Jean Dohmen de ‘zwaai naar links’ die politici dit verkiezingsjaar collectief op sociaal-economisch gebied lijken te maken. Niet alleen linkse partijen als SP en GroenLinks, maar ook van origine rechtse partijen als VVD en CDA pleiten voor…

Prof. Rutger Claassen appeared as a guest on the Another World is Podable podcast, in which the host prof. Peter Bloom aims to ‘explore the most radical social experiments and ideas today’. In the podcast, they discuss what Claassen, in his most recent book Capabilities in a Just Society: A Theory of Naviational Agency, has introduced…

Goed geld verdienen – Tegenlicht meet up Utrecht live. Bron: Youtube Prof. dr. Rutger Claassen (Ethiek Instituut ) was te gast bij de Goed geld verdienen meet-up van VPRO Tegenlicht om op zoek te gaan naar nieuwe bedrijfsmodellen die de economie crisisbestendig(er) maken. Claassen stelt dat er door de tijd heen verschillende visies op bedrijven en bedrijfsmodellen zijn geweest….

In the middle of March we were suddenly no longer allowed to visit our parents in the nursing home. Churches, concert halls and gyms closed their doors and parents had to teach their children at home. But were (and are) the restrictions also justified? The term ‘intelligent lockdown’ called for by Prime Minister Rutte has…