Better than that, though, it is not a dry, statistical analysis - although he doesn't shy from solid data - but a book written with verve, wit and imagination. Utopia for Realists has taken Holland by storm and could yet revitalise progressive thought around the globe. Nothing dystopian about this one: a young, practical set of ideas for how the next generation can do better - Jeanette Winterson If you're fed up with moaning, you owe it to yourself to read this book * Evening Standard * Where is the vision, the ambition, the belief? Into this bleak picture drops a book and an author bristling with hope, optimism and answers. If you're bored with hackneyed debates, decades-old right-wing and left-wing cliches, you may enjoy the bold thinking, fresh ideas, lively prose, and evidence-based arguments in Utopia for Realists - Steven Pinker, author of 'The Language Instinct' In this surprising, accessible and often counterintuitive book Bregman explores some brilliant but simple ideas for making a better world - Brian Eno This is a Read Now book. A visionary manifesto for a disillusioned age, a manifesto to spark debate and inspiration - a manifesto to change the world. Utopia for Realists is an idea whose time has come. Rutger Bregman is that voice.įrom a fifteen-hour week to a universal basic income, from open borders to getting rid of the fallacy that a higher salary is automatically a reflection of societal value, Bregman looks at the evidence for and against throughout history and up to the present day - and argues 'Why not'?

One defined by a political outsider, the voice of a generation, one who doesn't harness rage or agitate grievances but who instead provides us with the clear and convincing answers for which we've been looking. We have questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family and money, and yet no political party is providing us with the answers. We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, when technology and so-called progress have made us richer but more uncertain than ever before.

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