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Jan 30, 2024 · We limit how fast motorists can drive. We limit how many ducks hunters can shoot. 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 ...
tion about the way we are coexisting in local and global polities, the kind of structures and institutions we have, and what their consequences are. To answer the question, one needs several disciplines. One needs the empirical social sciences to know about the effects of extreme wealth on things that matter to us.
- Ingrid Robeyns
- 2019
Apr 8, 2024 · What I’ve said so far is what I think you need for a flourishing, good life. And then there is the question of political limits and how we should organize economic systems so that we try to make sure we end inequality. This is difficult for me to guess because I don’t have solid research here. But in the book, I’ve proposed 10 million.
(2019) has called for an upper limit to wealth as a solution to the global climate crisis. At the same time, philosophers have also started to investigate the idea that there should be a strict upper limit to how much wealth a person or household can possess and that in an ideal situation no one would be super-rich
- Matthias Kramm, Ingrid Robeyns
- 2020
Nov 23, 2022 · In this essay we argue against preventing people from amassing extreme wealth via increased taxation. 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 collective action problems. In response to this ...
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
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Feb 8, 2024 · Robeyns argues that given the wider damage from the enrichment of the few, with its negative impact on economic strength and on wider life chances and social resilience, we must now impose a limit on individual wealth holdings. Thinkers have been making the case for this “limitarianism” and the capping of business rewards for centuries.
