Limiting Wealth. Why Excess is a Political Problem

This book poses an uncomfortable and urgent question: why do we accept limits on almost everything—wages, deficits, emissions, resources—but not on extreme wealth? Limitarianism is based on an idea that is both simple and radical: in democratic societies, the limitless accumulation of wealth is not a neutral right, but a profound political, moral, and social problem. When a few concentrate too much economic power, the liberty and equality of everyone else are weakened, even if absolute pove...