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So as the fortunes of the world's richest people swell,

how much is too much?

Can a person be too rich? For more than a decade philosopher and economist

Ingrid Robanes has been considering these questions and in a new book she lays

out some of the problems of extreme wealth, practical, political,

and moral, and proposes a potential solution.

Robanes writes, after a decade of analyzing and debating extreme wealth, I became convinced that we must create a world in which no one is super rich, that there must be a cap on the amount of wealth any one person can have.

I call this

Limitarianism, she writes.

So let's find out more of where she thinks the upper limit should be,

for example, and delve into what she calls the

regulatory ideal of Limitarianism and who it would help.

Robane's new book is called Limitarianism, the case against extreme wealth, and she joins me now.

Thanks so much for coming on.

Congratulations on the book.

Welcome to WNYC.

Thank you very much for having me.

I guess we could start with a little bit of news for some context if this is just an abstraction for people like they are super rich.

Yeah.

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