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Read the latest news from Utrecht University on the Better Well-being Index and related topics, such as income inequality, prosperity and well-being.

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    What is limitarianism? Professor Ingrid Robeyns explains

    In the media

    6 December 2023

    “Extreme wealth is disastrous for society, democracy, and climate”, Professor of Ethics of Institutions Ingrid Robeyns pleads.
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    Having Too Much: Philosophical Essays on Limitarianism

    Publication

    8 August 2023

    Having Too Much is the first academic volume devoted to limitarianism: the idea that the use of economic or ecosystem resources should not exceed certain limits.
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    Broad welfare virtually stable over last three years

    News

    16 June 2023

    Despite successive crises, Broad Welfare is stable according to the Broad Welfare Indicator (BWI) 2023, although people are less healthy and satisfied.
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    Will billionaires be immortal? “Their wealth and power will keep growing”

    News

    28 March 2023

    The world’s richest will be the first to have access to life-extending treatments. This poses social risks, ethicist Chris Wareham observes.
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    “It's fine to be well-off, but at some point, one has too much”

    In the media

    24 January 2022

    On CBS News, professor in the Ethics of Institutions Ingrid Robeyns talked about the concept of ‘limitarianism’.
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    OECD ‘How was life?’-report highlights two centuries of wellbeing around the globe

    News

    16 March 2021

    The new OECD publication ‘How was Life? II’ shows economic development and wellbeing in over 40 countries worldwide, in the last 200 years. Jan Luiten van Zanden, professor in Economic history, is one of the authors.
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    Dimensions of better wellbeing as a basis for policy

    News

    8 September 2020

    Presentation of the pilot 'Supporting policy from a scientific perspective' in the House of Parliament.
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    “Not a crisis itself is crucial, but the measures taken afterwards”

    Background

    6 July 2020

    What does the current crisis mean for our future? Bas van Bavel, Professor Transitions in economy and society, from Institutions for Open Societies, reflects on this.
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    Market dominance and inequality make societies more vulnerable to natural disasters

    News

    9 December 2019

    Bas van Bavel's contribution to the 2019 Human Development Report.
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    The poverty trap

    Background

    15 July 2019

    Sustainable Development Goal number one is to eradicate poverty. But how can that be achieved? Poor people have more problems than just a lack of money.

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