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1 week ago | 
shepherd.com | Carl Rhodes |Ingrid Robeyns |Chuck Collins |Peter Goodman
Ingrid Robeyns opens her book provocatively. She poses the question: ‘Can a person be too rich?’ Her answer is ‘yes’! I value this book because it opens bold new ways of thinking about what can be done about inequality. Robeyns coined the term ‘limitarianism’ to explore how democratic societies might enforce specific caps on wealth. This limitarianism is, for Robeyns, a ‘regulative ideal’ that should inform government policy and regulation.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
crookedtimber.org | Ingrid Robeyns
Here’s a virtual toast to your flourishing in 2025. But more so than any other year, our wishes should not just be from person to person, but rather wishes for societies – and the society of societies, global humanity. I haven’t felt so gloomy about politics, broadly defined, in a very long time. A genocide is happening while all of us can see it, and mainstream politics and society tries every trick possible to rationalize and justify what is happening.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
technewstube.com | Ingrid Robeyns
The gap between the ultra-rich minority and the vast majority has never been greater. But a wave of activist millionaires is asking for higher taxes.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
wired.com | Ingrid Robeyns
In 2024, wealth concentration rose to an all-time high. According to , not only are there more billionaires than ever—2,781—but those billionaires are also richer than ever, with an aggregate worth of $14.2 trillion. This is a trend that looks set to continue unabated. A recent report from the financial data company Altrata estimated that about 1.2 million individuals who are worth more than $5 million will pass on a collective wealth of almost $31 trillion over the next decade.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
crookedtimber.org | Ingrid Robeyns
A few weeks ago, seven political philosophers at my department, who regularly meet to discuss issues related to sustainable futures, met to discuss Hannah Ritchie’s book Not the End of the World. That book quickly appeared on the bestseller’s lists.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
crookedtimber.org | Ingrid Robeyns
Editors of academic journals have been reporting that they find it increasingly hard to secure referees for papers that have been submitted to their journals. When I’ve been discussing this issue over the years with colleagues, I’ve heard a few remarks that made me wonder what our considerations are to decide whether or not to accept a review request. Clearly, there must be a content-wise fit: if one thinks the paper is outside one’s area of expertise, one should not accept the referee request.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
crookedtimber.org | Ingrid Robeyns
by Rutger Claassen and Ingrid RobeynsLet’s establish an upper limit on the personal wealth any individual can possess. This is the core principle behind ‘limitarianism’. Limitarianism represents one of the more radical proposals in the debate on wealth inequality. Over the past few years, one of us has developed the philosophy of limitarianism (first in the academic realm, and then more recently also in the public sphere, as regular readers of this blog know).
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
crookedtimber.org | Ingrid Robeyns
Together with many other academics in the Netherlands, I have been very busy in organizing a nation-wide demonstration next Thursday against the 1 billion budget cuts to higher education that our very-right-wing government has announced. (For background explanation, see this earlier post). Today, I have a long opinion piece in the daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad analyzing the crisis in higher eduction.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
nrc.nl | Ingrid Robeyns
Eerst maar even de officiële lijn. Eppo Bruins, minister van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap (NSC), heeft toegegeven de bezuinigingen „lelijk” te vinden. Maar het kabinet heeft nu eenmaal besloten voor een miljard te bezuinigen op het hoger onderwijs en de wetenschap, en dat moet hij uitvoeren, stelt Bruins. Ingrid Robeyns is hoogleraar ethiek van instituties aan de Universiteit Utrecht.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
crookedtimber.org | Ingrid Robeyns
In response to my previous post on the imminent threat to Dutch universities to have their budgets cut with up to 1 billion euros a year, I received a few emails from (mainly younger) staff to ask how they could contribute to the protests. I will respond specifically for the current Dutch case, but I think we could learn from international experience here.
