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Jun 24, 2019 · This is the form that arguments defending extreme incomes and wealth often take. In this paper, I will offer a different answer to the question of what, if anything, is wrong with a society in which some people are superrich. The question I ask is a normative question about the way we are coexisting in local and global polities, the kind of ...
- 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 ...
Apr 8, 2024 · Why We Need Limits on Extreme Wealth. 2024 Jan/Feb Details. An introduction to limitarianism, and why there should be an upper limit on how much money people can accumulate. Current Affairs. filed 08 April 2024 in Interviews. Ingrid Robeyns is a professor at Utrecht University, where she specializes in political philosophy and ethics.
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-
T1 - What's Wrong with Extreme Wealth? AU - Axelsen, David V, AU - Nielsen, Lasse. PY - 2023. Y1 - 2023. N2 - The expansion in the wealth of the extremely wealthy has received much attention in recent public and academic debate. In political theory, the phenomenon has only recently begun to be scrutinized.
Six categories of rents are identified, and collectively called the ‘ladder of demerit’ (Figure 2). The lower you go on the ladder, the more arguable it is that extreme wealth is indeed not meritocratic (in terms of contribution to society)—and that is a debate our society ought to have. Figure 2: The ladder of demerit.
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Oct 3, 2023 · The expansion in the wealth of the extremely wealthy has received much attention in recent public and academic debate. In political theory, the phenomenon has only recently begun to be scrutinized. 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 ...
