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Principle

Limits on wealth and power

We think wealth and control of essential functions should not allow one person to exercise lasting control over other people’s freedom.

The proposal

Economic and institutional structures must neither make the apex of systemic power dependent on one person’s exclusive will nor permit concentrations incompatible with equal freedom.

How to read it

Sources identify relevant rights, methods, findings or precedents. They do not automatically establish the full World4Humans formulation. Where the project makes its own choice, that choice remains open to criticism and revision.

Sources and literature

Authority
World4Humans project proposal informed by external sources.
Relationship
The overlap is partial; the cited sources do not establish full equivalence with the World4Humans formulation.

Cited publications

  • Gilens & Page, 2014

    Gilens, Martin & Benjamin I. Page. 2014. “Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens.” Perspectives on Politics 12(3): 564–581. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

  • Scheve & Stasavage, 2017

    Scheve, Kenneth & David Stasavage. 2017. “Wealth Inequality and Democracy.” Annual Review of Political Science 20. https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-polisci-061014-101840

  • World Inequality Database, s.d.

    World Inequality Database. Distributional data used in the P7 calibration lineage. https://wid.world/

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