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Utopia for realists : how we can build the ideal world / by Rutger Bregman ; English translation by Elizabeth Manton

by Bregman, Rutger, 1988-

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The Correspondent, 2016.

Utopias -- Philosophy.

View Rutger Bregman's TEDTalk "Why we should give everyone a basic income."

9780316471893 (hc., 2017 Little, Brown and Company USA ed.)

9789082520309 (pbk., 2016 The Correspondent ed.)

Gratis geld voor iedereen. English

249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Subtitle varies in different editions.

"Open borders -- 15-hour workweek"--Cover.

"The case for a universal basic income, open borders, and a 15-hour workweek"--Cover.

Translated from the Dutch

"Utopia for Realists originated on The Correspondent, the ad-free journalism platform that serves as an antidote to the daily news grind."--page [4] of cover

Includes bibliographical references (pages209-246)

"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. 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 TEDTalk 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 many 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 implementation of a basic income for millions of Americans, Bregman takes us on a journey through history, and beyond the traditional left-right divides, as he champions ideas whose time have come. Every progressive milestone of civilization-from the end of slavery to the beginning of democracy-was once considered a utopian fantasy. Bregman's book, both challenging and bracing, demonstrates that new utopian ideas, like the elimination of poverty and the creation of the fifteen-hour workweek, can become a reality in our lifetime.

Manton, Elizabeth.

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