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Ingrid Robeyns

Professor of ethics of institutions

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Ingrid Robeyns is an economist and philosopher, and professor of Ethics of Institutions at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She is currently directing the Fair Limits Project, which examines the distributive rule that there should be upper limits to how many resources it is morally permissible to have. She is the author of Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-examined (2017).

There’s no such thing as a self-made billionaire

Ingrid Robeyns

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11 min

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