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Jun 24, 2019 · 1. Introduction. Over the past decades, scholars have shown that economic inequalities are widening. Perhaps best-known of all is the work of Thomas Piketty (Citation 2014), who showed that disparities in wealth have been increasing in many countries, due to the improvement of the financial position of the 1% best off or more specifically the 0.1% best off.
- Ingrid Robeyns
- 2019
Oct 3, 2023 · This article builds on these preliminary steps, exploring the normative reasons we have to worry about extreme wealth. Looking at the issues, first, through a distributive lens, we reveal that the excess wealth of the extremely wealthy compounds the injustice of inequality and insufficiency, making the situation distinctly unjust. Through a ...
Mar 6, 2024 · The wealth defense industry’s sole professional purpose is to ensure the maintenance and growth of excessive wealth. Government Capture. Finally, excessive wealth damages our government and democratic processes. The ultra-wealthy use their excessive wealth to infiltrate and impact all levels and aspects of our society and government.
Apr 8, 2024 · You cite the wonderful book Generation Wealth by Lauren Greenfield, who studied the lives of the rich and their children. Oftentimes, being a child with extreme wealth has damaging effects. This idea that meaning in life comes from improving your bank account is not good for people. Robeyns. That’s true. For my book, I interviewed ...
The Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich is a unique examination of both the lives and lifestyles of the super-rich, as well as the processes that underpin super-wealth generation and its unequal ...
tion has been devoted to extreme wealth as a distinctive political and social phe-nomenon. Recently, some theorists have begun exploring the normative issues sur-rounding extreme wealth, and whether its expansion should be limited, under the heading of limitarianism.2 This debate, however, has so far centred around the dis-
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May 6, 2024 · Robeyns points out that extreme wealth “is often tied to immoral and criminal practices”. As evidence, she notes the massive use of tax evasion among ultra-wealthy people and their firms.
