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Feb 8, 2024 · In the face of soaring wealth inequality, Ingrid Robeyns ‘ Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth calls for restrictions on individual fortunes. Robeyns puts forward a strong moral case for imposing wealth caps, though how to navigate the political and practical hurdles involved remains unclear, writes Stewart Lansley.
Feb 18, 2024 · Estimated reading time: 5 minutes. In the face of soaring wealth inequality, Ingrid Robeyns ‘ Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth calls for restrictions on individual fortunes. Robeyns puts forward a strong moral case for imposing wealth caps, though how to navigate the political and practical hurdles involved remains unclear ...
"[Limitarianism is a] withering critique of the ethical, moral, and fiscal harms of unlimited wealth concentration . . . [This] caustic but balanced attack offers an equitable economic compromise."--Kirkus Reviews "A powerful case for limitarianism - the idea that we should set a maximum on how much resources one individual can appropriate.
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Mar 13, 2024 · That view is called limitarianism – a moral and political upper limit to how much personal wealth any one individual can have. What are the reasons for this view? In my book Limitarianism: The Case against Extreme Wealth, I unpack some of these reasons in detail, and back up the normative arguments with reference to empirical studies from a ...
Feb 1, 2024 · "Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth" makes a great case for limiting personal wealth, taxing the super wealthy and redistributing their resources to society. This might be an unpopular philosophy, but Robeyns does a great job illustrating he point with interviews and direct quotes from those with an excessive amount of generational wealth.
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Nov 4, 2022 · This article is a critical analysis of Ingrid Robeyns’ “economic limitarianism” (2017, 2019, 2022), the suggestion that there is a moral case against allowing people to be richer than they need to be in order to achieve full flourishing. Wealth above a certain “riches line” lacks value and should be capped at that level. Robeyns claims that limitarianism is justified as a partial ...
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Apr 5, 2024 · Those are some of the questions put forward by Dutch economist and philosopher Ingrid Robeyns in her new book "Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth". In it, she calls for governments to ...
