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Apr 8, 2024 · There should be no upper limit to wealth as long as the economic pie is growing and the poor are getting some of it. It doesn’t matter if the rich are getting much richer—they create wealth. Why should we care about the top, the upper limit, that you discuss in your book? Ingrid Robeyns.
Oct 18, 2024 · Billionaires devote vast sums of money to anti-poverty initiatives and green energy reforms. But the world’s wealthiest also cause disproportionate harm to the environment. A rousing debate, hosted last week by the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics, wrestled with the issues of extreme wealth and growing income inequality. Panelists ...
Apr 1, 2024 · “After a decade of analyzing and debating extreme wealth, I became convinced that we must create a world in which no one is super-rich—that there must be a cap on the amount of wealth any one...
Mar 13, 2024 · More concretely, we should be working towards a world without extreme wealth. 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?
1 day ago · The country with the most equal distribution of income in the world is Norway: 17.6. The Gini Coefficient for the United States is 46, much higher (more unequal) than many other developed, high-income countries. A comparison of inequality from 1980 to 2020 for selected countries, regions, and the world. James Morrissey/Oxfam America.
Jan 30, 2024 · We limit how much noise our neighbors can make. But if we want our human societies to thrive — indeed, in this epoch of climate change, if we want our human species to survive — we need to do more. We need to embrace, as Robeyns so compellingly argues, limits on income and wealth.
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Jan 29, 2024 · Nov. 14, 2023. Why should society limit extreme personal wealth? Excess wealth keeps the poor in poverty while inequality grows. Research shows that the lion’s share of the gains that...
