Ingrid Robeyns on Limitarianism

On February 11, 2025, philosopher and economist Ingrid Robeyns visited Harvard Kennedy School to present a Stone Inequality Book Talk on Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth. In her lecture, Professor Robeyns drew on her 2024 book to make multiple arguments for why there should be limits on the amount of wealth an individual can acquire, including that many large fortunes are derived from historical injustices, that extreme wealth inequality undermines democracy, and that extreme wealth is ecologically destructive, among other arguments. After her lecture, Professor Robeyns took questions from the audience.