Ingrid Robeyns

How Much Wealth Is Too Much? Ingrid Robeyns on the Case for Limitarianism Listen now (31 mins) | Inequality, Democracy, and the Case for Limiting Extreme Wealth.

Can a society thrive when a few own everything? More to the point: Can a society survive when a few own everything? A new interview with the Belgian-Dutch philosopher Ingrid Robeyns. @equalshope.bsky.social @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social www.equals.ink/p/how-much-w...

Hopelijk vinden we tijd om dit boek te lezen, ziet er superinteressant uit!

I can warmly recommend his book The Care Economy, in which @timjackson.org.uk discusses at length the importance of putting care and prevention central rather than spending all our resources on cure; it is very central to his argument.

I agree with the importance of care and prevention, and no doubt @timjackson.org.uk would agree too. It was implicitly in the interview, e.g. in the discussion on the role of big food & farma, one causing the problems that the other then addresses, thereby twice creating profit for capitalists.

The Netherlands has been suffering from the most incompetent, cowardly, and, on many issues, plainly immoral government that this country has had for ages. We have elections coming up in four weeks. Let's hope we can turn this extreme-right tide around. 🤞

These protests are organised around the metaphor of "the red line", referring to the question that NGOs and others asked our government multiple times, namely: When do you think Netanyahu has crossed a red line? Our government has refused to draw any line at all - hence the metaphor.

Today, 250.000 people took to the streets of Amsterdam to protest Israel's genocidal violence in Gaza and the cowardly response by the Dutch government. It followed on two earlier protests, one with 150.000 protesters, and the first one with about 100.000. By Dutch standards, these are huge numbers.

In Amsterdam staat Museumplein vol voor derde Rode Lijn-protest De demonstranten eisen actie van de regering tegen Israël. Amsterdam is volgestroomd met mensen in rode kleding en met rode paraplu's.

Dit is óók een aanklacht tegen Dick Schoof en zijn incompetente, kwaadaardige kliek. Niet in onze naam.
Stop de genocide.
Stop de Nederlandse medeplichtigheid.
Free Palestine.
❤️✊🇵🇸

net zoals de Israelische vrouw uit Tel Aviv uit de rapportage vrijdagavond op het NOS Journaal, die zei dat er geen onschuldige mensen in Gaza zitten. Echt.

Alle Joden over 1 kam scheren op een heel negatieve manier = antisemitisme: wettelijk verboden, wordt sociaal zwaar afgestraft, etc. (terecht!).

Alle Gazanen over 1 kam scheren op een heel negatieve manier is blijkbaar volkomen acceptabel in de VVD/mainstream Nederland.

Zo ver zijn we gekomen.

Thank you, New York Times. I like the word 'mighty', but the truth (as I see it) is that since writing it, my book has become pretty non-radical, given how events in the world are unfolding.

Humanities are a prerequisite for a free society - it's always an early victim of authoritarian tendencies.

As @remcobreuker.bsky.social, professor of Korea Studies has said before: there is a reason why North Korea doesn't have humanities.

An attack on the humanities is an attack on Academia's capacity to hold up a mirror to society and its leaders, which a healthy society needs.

White House fires much of the National Council on the Humanities The White House appeared to fire all but four members of the National Council on the Humanities, an advisory board to the head of the government’s grantmaking agency.

Source: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

In the US, another blow for independent reasoning, as Trump fires 22 of the 26 members of the National Council for the Humanities, a board of "scholars and humanities leaders appointed by the president to six-year terms" who advise the chair of the NEH on grantmaking, policy and funding decisions."

Memorial Event for Helen De Cruz - Daily Nous This past June, Helen De Cruz, professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University, died at the age of 46. Remembered not merely as a professor, but as a source of assistance, advice, and kindness for o...

A memorial event for Helen de Cruz, featuring talks, remembrances, and musical performances, is taking place later this month.

Not if we look at wealth concentration and number of billionaires.

Extreme Wealth Line

I hope the new Task force will embrace the idea to search for an Extreme Wealth Line, the idea that at some point, wealth holdings become corrosive for society (in addition to it often being morally undeserved or historically tainted). For the EWL Initiative, see extremewealthline.com

For the proposal that @gabrielzucman.bsky.social developed at the request of Brazil, see gabriel-zucman.eu/files/report...

... whose composition looks hopeful - not just mainstream economists, but a Global South-heavy and multidiscplinary task force.

Press release here: www.thepresidency.gov.za/president-cy...

Countries from the Global South are showing us the way out of the inequality crisis... after Brazil's proposal for a global minimum income tax on all billionaires under its G20 presidency, now South Africa has installed an Expert Taskforce to combat wealth Inequality >

And now we see the treatment that GL/PVDA receives from not only PVV, BBB, and JA21, but also VVD in the Netherlands... very scary stuff.

On my way back home, on the “Afsluitdijk” (the longest dyke in the Netherlands), after three intens days at Terschelling, with about 800 sustainability transition professionals (and 3 philosophers). #Springtij

Op Terschelling is vandaag het Springtij Forum van start gegaan; tot vrijdag worden hier kennis en ervaringen uitgewisseld over de ecologische transitie.

Het is in ieder geval een initiatief waar de waarden helder & centraal staan, dat kan ik als normatief filosoof alleen maar toejuichen :)

For everyone who hasn't listened to the analysis of Tim Jackson on the limits of capitalism, a recording of his talk last night is now online: www.sg.uu.nl/sprekers/tim...

Absoluut! In 50 minuten krijg je een behoorlijk volledige analyse waarom de fundamenten van ons economisch systeem aan een grote update toe zijn. De presentatie bevat heel inzichtelijke grafieken, en Jackson is een uitstekende spreker.

Now Catarina Neve’s opening the discussion.

A full Aula for @timjackson.org.uk in Utrecht! 🔥👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I have a new paper just published in Economics & Philosophy!

"Community through Market Competition"

I argue the ostensible tension between market exchange and community can be overcome.

It is open access and you can read it here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I wrote something on post-growth thinking in relation to Dutch politics.
crookedtimber.org/2025/09/22/t...