Utopia for Realists How We Can Build the Ideal World

Rutger Bregman

eBook - 2017

Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe's leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today. "A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell." — New York Times After working all day at jobs we often dislike, we buy things we don't need. Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian, reminds us it needn't be this way — and in some places it isn't. Rutger Bregman's TED Talk about universal basic income seemed impossibly radical when he delivered it in 2014. A quarter of a million views later, the subject of that video is being seriously considered by leading economists and government leaders the world over. It's just one of the man...y utopian ideas that Bregman proves is possible today. Utopia for Realists is one of those rare books that takes you by surprise and challenges what you think can happen. From a Canadian city that once completely eradicated poverty, to Richard Nixon's near...

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Little, Brown and Company
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English
Main Author
Rutger Bregman
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File Size4 GB
ISBN9780316471909
Release Date3/14/2017
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ASINB01MXDBTWM
Release Date3/14/2017
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File Size4 GB
ISBN9780316471909
Release Date3/14/2017