Citizen Knowledge discusses how knowledge, understood in a broad sense, should be dealt with in societies that combine a democratic political system with a capitalist economic system. How do citizens learn about politics? How do new scientific insights make their way into politics? What role can...

The question of justice in the market has often been asked in terms of the notion of desert: can one say that (labour) markets give people what they deserve? While this idea has been criticized both from the right (Hayek, Nozick) and from the left (Rawls, Barry), it is very much alive in public...

This paper considers the right to be acknowledged as the first inventor of a new technology. Technological inventions usually result from accumulative research and development, conducted by different people over decades and centuries. Moreover, sometimes several people arrive at the same...

This paper focuses on the cultural perception of work in an individual's life, and how it is captured in different legal systems. It contrasts two models, based on the works of Adam Smith and GWF Hegel: "human capital" and "vocation." The paper inquires how these models are reflected in legal...