Limitarianism
the case against extreme wealth
- ISBN: 9780241578193
- Editorial: Allen Lane Publishers
- Fecha de la edición: 2024
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 302
- Idiomas: Inglés
We all notice when the poor get poorer: when there are more rough sleepers and food bank queues start to grow. But if the rich become richer, there is nothing much to see in public and, for most of us, daily life doesn't change. Or at least, not immediately.
In this astonishing, eye-opening intervention, world-leading philosopher and economist Ingrid Robeyns exposes the true extent of our wealth problem, which has spent the past fifty years silently spiralling out of control. In moral, political, economic, social, environmental and psychological terms, she shows, extreme wealth is not only unjustifiable but harmful to us all - the rich included.
In place of our current system, Robeyns offers a breathtakingly clear alternative: limitarianism. The answer to so many of the problems posed by neoliberal capitalism - and the opportunity for a vastly better world - lies in placing a hard limit on the wealth that any one person can accumulate. Because nobody deserves to be a millionaire. Not even you.
Introduction
How much is too much?
It's keeping the poor in poverty while inequality grows
It's dirty money
It's undermining democracy
It's setting the world on fire
Nobody deserves to be a multimillionaire
There's so much we can do with the money
Philanthrophy is not the answer
The rich will benefit, too
The road ahead