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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 ...
Apr 23, 2021 · In all the world regions real total extreme wealth increased over the period 2005–2018 in absolute terms as well as a percentage of GDP at notable growth rates of 260% and 93%, respectively. In 2018, the accumulated total extreme wealth was equivalent to 8% of the world GDP. Furthermore, total extreme wealth grew in each individual country.
- Héctor Flores Marquez, Ana Lilia Valderrama Santibañez, Gerardo Angeles Castro, Omar Neme Castillo
- 2021
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
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-
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 ...
Nov 3, 2021 · Well, today we’ve gone from one of the most equal nations to one of the least – at least among wealthy nations. The consequences are everywhere – in our health, our institutions, our cities, and our governments. Great wealth threatens democracy itself. Billionaires have a disproportionate influence on politics.
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Well, today we’ve gone from one of the most equal nations to one of the least – at least among wealthy nations. The consequences are everywhere – in our health, our institutions, our cities, and our governments. Great wealth threatens democracy itself. Billionaires have a disproportionate influence on politics.
