From Limitarianism to a Better World

Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

From Limitarianism to a Better World, September 19 at 4pm (CEST)

About the session: After offering additional reasons for setting limits on individual wealth to those advanced by Ingrid Robeyns, I turn to two key questions about limitarian policy. First, how should we limit wealth? Second, what should we do with the resources that are no longer captured by the extremely wealthy? I shall focus on predistributive strategies for limiting wealth, including radical reduction of financial activity that does not serve the real economy, and elimination of other zero- and negative-value-added business strategies. Finance should be redirected to community needs, particularly for care work and climate resilience. The jobs thereby created can be designed with the aim of developing the capabilities of service recipients and workers alike, in the context of building cooperative rather than antagonistic social relationships–a key to rebuilding our fraying democracies.

About the speaker: Elizabeth Anderson is John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she has taught since 1987.  She is the author of Value in Ethics and Economics (Harvard UP, 1993), The Imperative of Integration (Princeton UP, 2010), Private Government (How Employers Rule our Lives, and Why We Don’t Talk About It) (Princeton UP, 2017), Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers, and How Workers Can Take It Back (Cambridge UP, 2023), and numerous, widely reprinted articles in journals of philosophy, law, and economics.  

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