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    “Academics can often only have a real impact when they work together”

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    27 June 2025

    Professor of Ethics of Institutions Ingrid Robeyns has been awarded the highest distinction for researchers in the Netherlands by the NWO: the Stevin Prize.
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    Overall wellbeing slightly up in the Netherlands; regional differences remain significant

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    26 June 2025

    Researchers at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� and RaboResearch have been publishing the Broad Prosperity Indicator (BWI), which looks at prosperity more broadly than just purchasing power or GDP, since 2016.
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    Overall wellbeing increases, but regional disparities have grown

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    1 July 2024

    Utrecht researchers developed a broader method to measure welfare: the Better Well-being Index (BWI). This year, broad welfare in the Netherlands increased.
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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

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    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”

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    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 ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��, 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

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    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

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    8 September 2020

    Presentation of the pilot 'Supporting policy from a scientific perspective' in the House of Parliament.

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