Ingrid Robeyns

This is a well meaning book with some interesting ideas.

Ingrid Robeyns is honest enough to say tat Limitarianism isn't a silver bullet; it won't make the world a perfect place but, it is a tool to improve the disastrous position that we currently find ourselves. This is true, but there are some real problems with the implementation of Limitarianism; firstly, to try to add limits to a system whose main raison d'etre is to unleash the greed of the 0.01% is unlikely to be an idea that those in power will allow to be seriously considered and secondly, for this to work, we would need some form of world government. I know that we have a world bank and the UN, but neither have the ability, or probably the desire, to stand up to the United States.

If we are to defeat Neoliberalism, we must take the long view: Neoliberalism was thought up in 1947 and didn't take hold until the 1980's.… (mehr)