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  1. www.currentaffairs.org › news › 2024Why We Need Limits on Extreme Wealth - Current Affairs

    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.

  2. www.theatlantic.com › family › archiveIngrid Robeyn's 'Limitarianism' Makes the Case for Capping ...

    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...

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  4. blogs.lse.ac.uk › inequalities › 2024/03/13Limitarianism: Why to cap personal wealth | LSE Inequalities

    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.

  5. news.harvard.edu › gazette › storyAre rich different from you and me? Would we be better off ...

    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 ...

  6. inequality.org › must-we-limit-the-wealthys-wealthMust We Limit the Wealthy’s Wealth? - Inequality.org

    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.

  7. ideas.ted.com › the-4-biggest-reasons-The 4 biggest reasons why inequality is bad for society

    Jun 3, 2014 · Harvard philosopher T. M. Scanlon offers four reasons we should tackle — and fix — the problem. The great inequality of income and wealth in the world, and within the United States, is deeply troubling.

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  9. theweek.com › limitarianism-cap-on-extreme-wealthLimitarianism: could we put a cap on extreme wealth?

    Apr 5, 2024 · Developed countries with adequate social safety nets, such as her native Netherlands, should impose a limit of €10 million (£8.5 million) on individual personal wealth, according to Robeyns....