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…

Op 9 december 2019 gaf prof. dr. Rutger Claassen (Filosofie en Religiewetenschap) zijn oratie bij zijn benoeming tot hoogleraar Politieke Filosofie en Economische Ethiek. Recentelijk is deze oratie gepubliceerd bij Boom uitgevers Den Haag. Privaat vs. publiek Van oudsher proberen liberaal-democratische samenlevingen private en publieke sferen gescheiden te houden. Individuen en bedrijven kunnen privaat handelen op de markt, winst maken…

Companies are being regulated by politics, but they also shape the political arena themselves, whenever they influence politicians and political parties. Moreover, companies fulfill public functions such as providing public goods, regulating their own business activities, or addressing societal problems, like environmental harms. Mixture of public and private Can such a mixture of private activity…

Prof. Dr. Rutger Claassen and Prof. Dr. Judith van Erp, both connected to the IOS Platform Markets and Corporations in Open Societies, will publish their essay collection ‘Entrepreneurship in the open society’ in the month of September. In this book, these and five other authors explore the opportunities, but also the downsides, of the constantly evolving ‘open society’….

Rutger Claassen en Anna Gerbrandy have won the ‘Outstanding Article Award of 2018’ of the Society for Business Ethics, for their article “Doing Good Together: Competition Law and the Political Legitimacy of Interfirm Cooperation” which appeared in the Business Ethics Quarterly. The price has been awarded during a ceremony on August 19th in Boston, which Rutger and…

Prof. dr. Rutger Claassen(Filosofie) en advocaat Jan-Koen Sluijs schreven op 24 juli in de NRC over de plichten van private ondernemingen.  “In onze visie zijn bedrijven, private ondernemingen, hoe vreemd dit wellicht ook klinkt, zelf publieke actoren geworden. En dit betekent dat zij een zorgplicht hebben voor het publiek belang. Net als bij overheden moeten we die plicht bij bedrijven met…