Prof.dr. Ingrid Robeyns, Chair ‘Ethics of institutions’, Utrecht University & PI ERC Consolidator project ‘Fair Limits’.

https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/iamrobeyns/Publicaties

Since her PhD in 2002 with Amartya Sen, on ‘Gender inequality: a Capability Perspective’, Ingrid has broadened her attention to inequalities related to class (notably: wealth), neurodiversity, and climate change. Trained in economics and philosophy, she has strong interest in feminist economics, economic ethics and economic inequalities. She is finishing the Fair Limits project, which involves a philosophical analysis of limits in the distribution of economic and ecological resources. On this she also published a book in Dutch towards a wider audience, called Rijkdom (wealth). In this book she argues that it is morally objectionable to be excessively rich. Since also writes for the collective blog Crooked Timber.

In the Netherlands, she is also well known for her very visible activism for better working conditions and the reversal of austerity measures at universities.

Highlights

• Robeyns, I. (2019) ‘What if anything is wrong with extreme wealth?’, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 20(3), 251-266.
• Hens, K, I. Robeyns and K. Schaubroek (2018) ‘The Ethics of Autism’, Philosophy Compass,  https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12559
• Robeyns, I. (2017) Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-examined, Cambridge: Open Book Publishers.
• Robeyns, I. (2017) ‘Freedom and responsibility – Sustainable prosperity through a capability lens’, CUSP Essay Series on the Morality of Sustainable Prosperity #4.
• Robeyns, I. (2020), ‘Gender and the metric of justice’, in: H Brighouse and I. Robeyns (eds.) Measuring Justice Cambridge University Press.