Is it possible to meet the needs of all human beings? Not in a world dominated by extreme wealth, explains Ingrid Robeyns, professor at Utrecht University. His solution: limit assets.
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By Dominique BernsPublished on 4/11/2024 at 09:00
Reading time: 9 min
Ingrid Robeyns does not beat around the bush: “There should be a ceiling on personal assets. This limit is not to be found around a billion. We should instead consider an amount of around 10 million euros. » For sure, what this Belgian-Dutch economist and philosopher, teaching at the University of Utrecht, calls “limitarism” is much more radical than the PTB’s “millionaires tax” or the minimum tax of 2% on the billionaires proposed by the French economist Gabriel Zucman. In his essay Limitarianism. The Case Against Extreme Wealth (Allen Lane), Ingrid Robeyns attempts to answer a simple but very rarely asked question: how much is too much?
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