Ingrid Robeyns
@ingridrobeyns.bsky.social
Political philosopher; once upon a time economist. Prof @ Utrecht University | Public values (social justice, sustainability, quality of life). Fair economies, caring societies. #limitarianism
Ingrid A. M. Robeyns is a Belgian/Dutch philosopher who holds the Chair Ethics of Institutions at Utrecht University, Faculty of Humanities and the associated Ethics Institute.
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Zero tolerance for trolls, agitators and liars, including those who falsely equate critics of the Israeli genocide to be supporters of Hamas or antisemitic.
You will be blocked without warning. I recommend to study basic logic and what it means to have fallen for, and not resist, propaganda.
You will be blocked without warning. I recommend to study basic logic and what it means to have fallen for, and not resist, propaganda.
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From shareholder capitalism to democratic economy
What if workers take back control?
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Wednesday 3 December in the evening, live in Utrecht and also online: Isabelle Ferreras will speak about the need to democratize firms. Caleb Althorpe will provide a response.
This is an event that is open to the public, everyone is welcome!
www.sg.uu.nl/agenda/2025/...
This is an event that is open to the public, everyone is welcome!
www.sg.uu.nl/agenda/2025/...
Speaker Series with Dr. Barry Maguire
About the session: Socialism and the Collective Ownership of the Means of Production (joint work with Jan Kandiyali) The session takes place online. You can join the session through the MS TEAMS link....
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Monday December 1st, at 15h30 (CET), we will have the last Vision Speaker Series of 2025! Join us for a presentation by Barry Maguire about "Socialism and the Collective Ownership of the Means of Production" (with Jan Kandiyali). #Philosophy
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visions-for-the-future.sites.uu.nl/events/speak...
certainly no problem with the border control, the problem lies with the number of passangers, which is (at peak times) higher than (or close to) the maximum capacity this terminal can process.
what is EES?
Check-in for 3 trains I took leaving London in Spring and early Summer was equally bad. A train I took a few weeks ago was better, but then I travelled mid-day (around 3 pm), which may be part of the explanation.
It seems they just have too many trains leaving London between 4-6 pm.
Check-in for 3 trains I took leaving London in Spring and early Summer was equally bad. A train I took a few weeks ago was better, but then I travelled mid-day (around 3 pm), which may be part of the explanation.
It seems they just have too many trains leaving London between 4-6 pm.
Is this becoming the new normal for international train travel in London? (Plus a very long line in the hall, just like last time, and the time before and….) @eurostarnews.bsky.social
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"We're living through an inequality emergency".
NEF chief exec. @dhnnjyn.bsky.social is in Johannesburg ahead of the G20 summit calling on leaders to take action.
We need:
💸 taxes on the super-rich
💰 corporate taxes
🌍 real action on climate change
Watch. Share. Demand your government acts now.
NEF chief exec. @dhnnjyn.bsky.social is in Johannesburg ahead of the G20 summit calling on leaders to take action.
We need:
💸 taxes on the super-rich
💰 corporate taxes
🌍 real action on climate change
Watch. Share. Demand your government acts now.
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There will be a livestream via UNESCO's LinkedIn page: www.linkedin.com/events/73947...
fijn om te lezen! We hebben hard gewerkt aan de formuleringen om het helderder te maken (het helpt ook als je schrijft met mensen uit verschillende disciplines en ook binnen en buiten de academie, dan heb je meteen verschillende perspectieven aan boord)
making this distinction is necessary, since there is a lot of "jumping to conclusions" when people hear about the idea that one can have too much money. And if one thinks that wanting to construct an extreme wealth line implies a 100% taxation rate, then this is confused.
Let’s be clear – an Extreme Wealth Line is not a cap on wealth
An extreme wealth line (EWL) defines a level where the harms associated with extreme wealth become socially unacceptable. It is not the same as a cap on wealth
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In this blog, we explain why we need to have an Extreme Wealth Line, just like the Extreme Poverty Line. Also, having a line as a social indicator does not necessarily commit one to a limit on wealth possession via taxation only; it's a regulative ideal.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
De term “academische vrijheid” wordt nu door extreem-rechts ingezet om hun doel te bereiken om de onafhankelijkheid van de universiteiten te ondergraven. Niets is wat het aan de oppervlakte lijkt, in deze tijden.
Online discussion on Lisa Herzog’s The Democratic Marketplace — Crooked Timber
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Lisa Herzog has written an important book on how our economy erodes and sabotages real democracy, and what to do about that. And we're organising an online book discussion on Thursday!
crookedtimber.org/2025/11/17/o...
crookedtimber.org/2025/11/17/o...
Top economists call on world leaders to set up an international panel on inequality
Hundreds of top economists and other experts including former U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen are calling for the world to set up an independent international panel on income and wealth inequalit...
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Proud to have signed the letter from 600+ economists & inequality experts from 70 countries supporting the call for a new Independent Panel on Inequality -- an Inequality IPCC-- to tackle rising inequality.
The G20 leaders must support this. #G20SouthAfrica
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The G20 leaders must support this. #G20SouthAfrica
www.independent.co.uk/news/south-a...
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The good news is that there is lots of other beautiful art on the Etsy website of Silverpebble. So have a look. www.etsy.com/shop/silverp...
So I told myself I really had to concentrate on the writing now, but that the next day, I would treat myself to one of those beauties.
To all of you, I have good news and bad news.
The bad news is that I just bought the last copy of this beautiful piece:
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To all of you, I have good news and bad news.
The bad news is that I just bought the last copy of this beautiful piece:
www.etsy.com/listing/1482...
I plan to post at least one of my photos a day here on Bluesky. I design each of my photos using recent research into the benefits to mental health of looking at plants & patterns in nature.
Making my collections relaxes my noisy autistic+ADHD brain & they'll relax yours by looking at them here:
Making my collections relaxes my noisy autistic+ADHD brain & they'll relax yours by looking at them here:
Last night, someone here at BS retweeted a post - with picture - of Emma Mitchell's artwork.
It had been a very long day, and I could not go to bed before I finished the foreword for the Paperback edition of the German translation of Limitarianism. But I looked at Emma's art, and was captivated. >
It had been a very long day, and I could not go to bed before I finished the foreword for the Paperback edition of the German translation of Limitarianism. But I looked at Emma's art, and was captivated. >
Yes, it is very sad (or better: worrying) that recent political events make the case against wealth concentration so clear (above all Musk's actions, but not only him).
The X Effect: How Elon Musk is boosting the British right
For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does.
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Disturbing analysis from SkyNews on how X is strongly biased in favour of rightwing content, and also in favour of posts with extremist statements. Musk bought X to have political influence - the obvious explanation, but now we get some of the data to support it.
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news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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there is now a possibility to register for online attendence of this talk (on UNESCO's LinkedIn page, so sadly you need a LinkedIn account): www.linkedin.com/events/73947...
De mensen thuis
De VVD-leider Dilan Yeşilgöz is een geschikt studieobject voor een cursus framing voor beginners.
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Marc van Oostendorp over het framen van DY: neerlandistiek.nl/2025/11/de-m...
Deze mensen zijn niet alleen bedrijfsleiders, maar ook vader, moeder, betrokken buren en burgers. Dat beeld dat álle bedrijfsleiders VVD stemmen, klopt niet. Ik zou die ondernemers graag meer in de media willen zien, om het monopolie dat de VVD claimt te hebben te doorbreken.
Interessant dat Dolan Yezilgös beweert dat de VVD de partij bij uitstek is die belangen van de ondernemers beschermt. Ik sprak recent een zeer succesvolle Nederlandse ondernemer die mij vroeg waarom mensen toch op de VVD stemmen.
Fiction and non-fiction to move citizens on climate change — Crooked Timber
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Since the COPs won't save the planet, and the Dutch elections hardly mentioned climate change, I wrote a blogpost on books that can move a broad group of citizens when it comes to climate and environmental issues.
crookedtimber.org/2025/11/10/f...
crookedtimber.org/2025/11/10/f...
There may be an online link, but I am not sure (I have been told it will be shown in Unesco offices around the world). If it also online, I'll post info when I have it.
Visions for the Future | Universiteit Utrecht
Universiteit Utrecht
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I will talk about some things we learned while working on the Visions for the Future project, and how political philosophical analysis can support informed democratic-decision making. See visions-for-the-future.sites.uu.nl
World Philosophy Day 2025
UNESCO celebrates World Philosophy Day on 20 November in Paris with a keynote by Prof. Ingrid Robeyns on the ethics of inequality and values shaping future societies
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I am honoured to have been invited to give a lecture at the UNESCO headquarters to celebrate World Philosophy Day, on November 20th. More info here:
www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
Let op de verdraaiingen van taal:
Als je 1 centrumpartij hebt (d66), 1 rechtse partij (CDA), 1 (radicaal-)rechtse partij (VVD) en 1 extreemrechtse partij (JA21), dan heb je geen 'centrum-rechts' kabinet zoals Yesilgöz beweert, maar gewoon een rechts kabinet.
Als je 1 centrumpartij hebt (d66), 1 rechtse partij (CDA), 1 (radicaal-)rechtse partij (VVD) en 1 extreemrechtse partij (JA21), dan heb je geen 'centrum-rechts' kabinet zoals Yesilgöz beweert, maar gewoon een rechts kabinet.
Yesilgöz op de NOS: de keuze “is tussen een links kabinet en een centrum-rechts kabinet”.
Echt. Niet. Dus.
DY framet er op los.
Maar goed, een VVD’er vertelde me dat ie GL als “extreem-links” ziet, tja, dan krijg je dus dit soort onzin. 🤷♀️
Echt. Niet. Dus.
DY framet er op los.
Maar goed, een VVD’er vertelde me dat ie GL als “extreem-links” ziet, tja, dan krijg je dus dit soort onzin. 🤷♀️
Dit heet tegenwoordig toch "ruim 1,3 miljoen kiezers uitsluiten"?
En, belangrijk, dit zijn kiezers die wél de grondwet en het internationaal recht respecteren, en bovendien grotendeels beleid voorstaan dat minder “links” is dan wat we in de na-oorlogse decennia van hoge welvaartsgroei en emancipatie kenden.
Kortom, ongegronde uitsluiting.
Kortom, ongegronde uitsluiting.
The limits of number-crunching: Hannah Ritchie’s Not the End of the World — Crooked Timber
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(I will write that paper next year, but for another example, see crookedtimber.org/2024/12/09/t...)
The limits of number-crunching: Hannah Ritchie’s Not the End of the World — Crooked Timber
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Also, while this requires more argumentation, this also serves as an example of what is wrong with any ideology that puts “effective” before its name. No historical justice, epistemic considerations, structural & power analyses.