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  • The Case Against Extreme Wealth
  • By: Ingrid Robeyns
  • Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge
  • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (12 ratings)
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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.
©2024 Ingrid Robeyns (P)2024 Penguin Audio
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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, author of THE SPIRIT LEVEL and THE INNER LEVEL)
Powerful – a must-read (Thomas Piketty, author of CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY)
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, author of FREE: COMING OF AGE AT THE END OF HISTORY)

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The case against greed

I was very interested in why some people are very rich and why that is bad for the rest of us and the planet. The arguments were well made and full of interesting examples and facts. If you are interested in how we can improve our world and everyone’s life, I recommend this book.

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