📗 Libro en inglés LIMITARIANISM

The best case I ve read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth Richard Wilkinson One of the most talked about books to the moment Limitarianism floats the heretical idea that fixing society isn t just about saving the poorest from destitution but about putting a cap on how much the richest are able to own SpectatorNo one deserves to be a millionaire Not even you 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