What are the roles of competition and competitiveness in modern societies?
The Competition and Competitiveness Project is a research project in the School of Philosophy & Art History funded by the Leverhulme Trust. It is a four-year project and will run until the end of 2024.
The project takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on historical sources, social scientific insights and philosophical analysis. The Principal Investigator, Professor Timo Jütten, leads a research team consisting of three Senior Research Officers (an economist, a historian, and a philosopher), a PhD student in philosophy, and a project administrator.
The research team works on a number of different conceptual and empirical issues, and much of our work is interdisciplinary. For example, we consider the consequences of unfair competition both theoretically in the context of theories of justice and empirically through a serious of experiments.