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, beyond the traditional left-right divides, as he introduces ideas whose time has come.

His work has been featured in The Washington Post and on the BBC. Bregman has twice been nominated for the prestigious European Press Prize for his journalism work at The Correspondent. This guide to a revolutionary yet achievable utopia is supported by multiple studies, lively anecdotes and numerous success stories. The Dutch edition of Utopia for Realists became a national bestseller and sparked a basic income movement that soon made international headlines. He has published four books on history, philosophy and economics, including Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World, which has been translated into thirty languages. New utopian ideas such as universal basic income and a 15-hour work week can become reality in our lifetime. Bregman (born 1988) is a Dutch popular historian and author. But when it comes to implementing these ideas into policies and practice, Bregman suggests a humble, tinkering approach overzealous attachment to. His book Utopia for Realists - on universal basic income. To be a utopian takes grand, ambitious thinking. Every milestone of civilization - from the end of slavery to the beginning of democracy - was once considered a utopian fantasy. The 28-year-old historian and author has published four books on history, philosophy and economics. Rutger Bregman, a bestselling Dutch historian, explains that it needn't be this way.īregman shows that we can construct a society with visionary ideas that are, in fact, wholly implementable. His internationally published books Humankind (2020) and Utopia for Realists (2017) were. We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, with questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family and money, and yet no political party of the right or left is providing us with answers. His articles have been featured in The Washington Post and on the BBC.

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