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Limitarianism

The Case Against Extreme Wealth

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Auteur(s): Ingrid Robeyns
Narrateur(s): Rachel Bavidge
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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 no-one should have more than ten million, and no one needs more than one million. Not even you.

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Ce que les critiques en disent

The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth. Even the super-rich might be glad if there was a finishing line! (Richard Wilkinson)
You might find yourself, as I did, underlining a sentence or three on every page, and adding exclamation points in the margin (Tim Adams)
Valuable, intriguing, provocative ... Robeyns poses a question that very rarely gets asked in mainstream politics ... How much is too much?
She’s done the maths. We need Limitarianism. Urgently
Provocative ... begs an interesting debate about society's future
A landmark ... gripping, riveting, vivid ... We need to embrace, as Robeyns so compellingly argues, limits on income and wealth.
Powerful – a must-read (Thomas Piketty)
Effortlessly navigating between ethics, political theory, economics and public policy, Ingrid Robeyns’ nuanced and persuasive defence of limitarianism is also a much-needed manifesto for reimagining political institutions (Lea Ypi)
Is it possible to meet the needs of all people within the means of the living planet? Definitely not in a world dominated by extreme wealth, as Ingrid Robeyns powerfully argues. This landmark book combines meticulous logic with compelling personal stories to draw everyone - from the super-rich to the super-riled - into one of the most critical public debates of our times. Read it. (Kate Raworth)
A compelling case for limiting extreme wealth, along economic, political and moral lines ... This argument has never been more important, and this book is a persuasive call to action (Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
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I set out to read a well articulated left leaning perspective. This work would make Marx proud being full of class conflict, oppressors and the opressed and social engineering culminating with a call to revolution!
if you are looking to justify the activist destruction of property as holding the moral high ground then this book will certainly satisfy.
The author identies herself as a philosopher and economist. On the former, she seems to have skipped the unit on logical fallacies. On the later, she does not seem to understand what money is nor grasp the concept of scarcity creating value.
Many of her arguments are either self defeating or casting her opponents as straw men who's objections are just silly.
There is a choir who will enjoy being preached to but if you are looking for sound rational arguments, you may want to look elsewhere.
To those looking to balance, I suggest Factfullness by Hans Rosling and Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell.

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