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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.
Jan 30, 2024 · We need to embrace, as Robeyns so compellingly argues, limits on income and wealth. “A world on fire needs a lot of money to extinguish the flames,” she notes in her new book’s final pages, “and the super-rich are holding onto money they don’t need.”.
the lines that business is about generating wealth for the community and that, although it follows the ‘laws’ of economy or of the market, it should not be subject to legal or moral limits. Nevertheless, the essay may well be read alone for the specific question it raises. The essay will draw on the first two books of
Jul 6, 2023 · Having Too Much is the first academic volume devoted to limitarianism: the idea that the use of economic or ecosystem resources should not exceed certain limits. This concept has deep roots in...
ABSTRACT. This paper proposes a view, called limitarianism, which suggests that there should be upper limits to the amount of income and wealth a person can hold. One argument for limitarianism is that superriches can undermine political equality.
- Ingrid Robeyns
- 2019
The first argument in favor of such a proposal, recently advanced by Ingrid Robeyns (2018), states that billionaires’ resources would be better spent addressing morally important goals such as meeting disadvantaged people’s needs and solving col-lective action problems.
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Nov 23, 2022 · In Sect. 4, we consider the objection that billionaires’ success is typically a result of public investment. On this view, billionaires do not deserve to keep their wealth because taxpayers are entitled to a return on the public investments that enabled billionaires to become so wealthy.