Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (592 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MXDBTWM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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We're a country that was once rich with social experimentation Now we don't really even try, and mostly just scream at each other on the Internet. Read this book."Sydney Finkelstein, director of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and author of Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent "If you're bored with hackneyed debates and decades-old right-wing and left-wing clich?s, you may enjoy the bold thinking, fresh ideas, lively prose, and evidence-based arguments in Utopia for Realists."Steven Pinker, New York Times bestselling author of The Blank Slate and The Better Angels of Our Nature"Bregman speaks with impressive authority His solutions are quite simple and staunchly set against current trends He has assembled a wealth of empirical evidence to make his case. If we can get enough people to read this book, the wor
we are wealthier by a great margin than anyone has been in history dfenner We are obviously in a trap. Many in the rich world are clearly dissatisfied with their lives, and they have no idea what to do about it. Yet by the measure of all previous generations we should be in paradise. As Bregman demonstrates, we are wealthier by a great margin than anyone has been in history.Bregman's answer to this dilemma is that we need use this wealth to buy ourselves more time and more security, no. About Time for a little Utopian Thinking Bill Gonch In stream of elections that never seem to end -- I just voted in an Australian election today -- I never cease to be disappointed by the true lack of choices on offer. Like most countries we have two major parties. One vows to disassemble the social compact quickly and one will take a slightly slower course. What I see is a lack of imagination of how the world might be better and how the world align to where we . Goals for the Left David Wineberg Utopia For Realists is a Left manifesto. It explores three policies guaranteed to enrage right wingers: a guaranteed income, a shorter work week and open borders. Rutger Bregman does it with splendid panache. The book is a totally positive, upbeat read – most unusual for a defensive, defeatist Left. The studies and the facts are all there. Deny them at your peril, he seems to say.To appreciate and enjoy Ut
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. Universal basic income. Open borders. 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. Nearly a million views later, guaranteed basic income is being seriously considered by leading economists and government leaders the world over. Bregman's book, both challenging and bracing, demonstrates that new utopian ideas, like the elimination of