Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal WorldLittle, Brown, 14 mars 2017 - 336 pages 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 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. Being unrealistic and unreasonable can in fact make the impossible inevitable, and it is the only way to build the ideal world. |
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... economy? It is now 250 times what it was before the Industrial Revolution–when nearly everyone, everywhere was still poor, hungry, dirty, afraid, stupid, sick, and ugly. FIGURE 1 Two Centuries of Stupendous Progress Netherlands United ...
... economy? It is now 250 times what it was before the Industrial Revolution–when nearly everyone, everywhere was still poor, hungry, dirty, afraid, stupid, sick, and ugly. FIGURE 1 Two Centuries of Stupendous Progress Netherlands United ...
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... economic devastation; the continent is now home to six of the world's ten fastest-growing economies.8 By the year 2013, six billion of the globe's seven billion inhabitants owned a cell phone. (By way of comparison, just 4.5 billion had ...
... economic devastation; the continent is now home to six of the world's ten fastest-growing economies.8 By the year 2013, six billion of the globe's seven billion inhabitants owned a cell phone. (By way of comparison, just 4.5 billion had ...
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... economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction 18 of sophisticated consumer demands.” Notching up our purchasing power. Source: Peace Research Institute Oslo.
... economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction 18 of sophisticated consumer demands.” Notching up our purchasing power. Source: Peace Research Institute Oslo.
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... economy, audience shares, publications–slowly but surely, quality is being replaced by quantity. And driving it all is a force sometimes called “liberalism,” an ideology that has been all but hollowed out. What's important now is to ...
... economy, audience shares, publications–slowly but surely, quality is being replaced by quantity. And driving it all is a force sometimes called “liberalism,” an ideology that has been all but hollowed out. What's important now is to ...
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... economic growth? “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” a former math whiz at Facebook recently lamented.33 Lest there be any misunderstanding: It is capitalism that opened the gates to the ...
... economic growth? “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” a former math whiz at Facebook recently lamented.33 Lest there be any misunderstanding: It is capitalism that opened the gates to the ...
Table des matières
The End of Poverty | |
The Bizarre Tale of President Nixon and His Basic Income Bill | |
New Figures for a New | |
A FifteenHour Workweek | |
Why It Doesnt Pay to Be a Banker | |
Race Against the Machine | |
Beyond the Gates of the Land of Plenty | |
How Ideas Change the World | |
Epilogue | |
Acknowledgements | |
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| Titre | Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World |
| Auteur | Rutger Bregman |
| Éditeur | Little, Brown, 2017 |
| ISBN | 0316471909, 9780316471909 |
| Longueur | 336 pages |
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