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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... problem: Today, the old medieval dream of the utopia is running on empty. Sure, we could manage a little more consumption, a little more security–but the adverse effects in the form of pollution, obesity, and Big Brother are looming ...
... problem: Today, the old medieval dream of the utopia is running on empty. Sure, we could manage a little more consumption, a little more security–but the adverse effects in the form of pollution, obesity, and Big Brother are looming ...
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... to “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.
... to “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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... problem management. Voters swing back and forth not because the parties are so different, but because it's barely possible to tell them apart, and what now separates right from left is a percentage point or two on the income tax rate.25 ...
... problem management. Voters swing back and forth not because the parties are so different, but because it's barely possible to tell them apart, and what now separates right from left is a percentage point or two on the income tax rate.25 ...
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... problem among teens and will be the number-one cause of illness worldwide by 2030.31 It's a vicious circle. Never ... problems like unemployment, dissatisfaction, and depression on the individual. If success is a choice, then so is ...
... problem among teens and will be the number-one cause of illness worldwide by 2030.31 It's a vicious circle. Never ... problems like unemployment, dissatisfaction, and depression on the individual. If success is a choice, then so is ...
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... problems,” as though politics could be outsourced to management consultants. Sure, there are some who try to revive the old faith in progress. Is it any wonder that the cultural archetype of my generation is the Nerd, whose apps and ...
... problems,” as though politics could be outsourced to management consultants. Sure, there are some who try to revive the old faith in progress. Is it any wonder that the cultural archetype of my generation is the Nerd, whose apps and ...
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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