Review
If you're bored with hackneyed debates, decades-old right-wing and left-wing clichés, 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')
A wonderfully readable breath of fresh air, a window thrown open to a better future ... Bregman combines deep research with wit, challenging us to think anew about how we want to live and who we want to be. Required reading (Philipp Blomm, author of 'The Vertigo Years')
Brilliant, comprehensive, truly enlightening, and eminently readable Obligatory reading for everyone worried about the wrongs of present-day society and wishing to contribute to their cure (Zygmunt Bauman, Professor Emeritus of Leeds University and one of the world's most eminent social theorists)
Superbly written, upbeat, insightful (Philippe van Parijs, Harvard University professor and co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network)
If energy, enthusiasm and aphorism could make the world better, then Rutger Bregman's book would do it ... The writing is powerful and fluent ... A boisterously good read (Independent)
In this surprising, accessible and often counterintuitive book Bregman explores some brilliant but simple ideas for making a better world (Brian Eno)
If you'd like to see a fairer world but don't know how to get there, this book is for you. Bregman brilliantly shows how ideas commonly dismissed as utopian are eminently possible, indeed have almost happened (Ben Rawlence, Ben Rawlence, author of 'City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp')
Bregman shows us we've been looking at the world inside out. Turned right way out we suddenly see fundamentally new ways forward. If we can get enough people to read this book, the world will start to become a better place (Richard Wilkinson, co-author of The Spirit Level)
An excellent read and full of well-told stories and details I didn't know (Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist)
A boisterously good read (John Rentoul Independent)
A wonderfully readable breath of fresh air, a window thrown open to a better future ... Bregman combines deep research with wit, challenging us to think anew about how we want to live and who we want to be. Required reading (Philipp Blomm, author of 'The Vertigo Years')
Brilliant, comprehensive, truly enlightening, and eminently readable Obligatory reading for everyone worried about the wrongs of present-day society and wishing to contribute to their cure (Zygmunt Bauman, Professor Emeritus of Leeds University and one of the world's most eminent social theorists)
Superbly written, upbeat, insightful (Philippe van Parijs, Harvard University professor and co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network)
If energy, enthusiasm and aphorism could make the world better, then Rutger Bregman's book would do it ... The writing is powerful and fluent ... A boisterously good read (Independent)
In this surprising, accessible and often counterintuitive book Bregman explores some brilliant but simple ideas for making a better world (Brian Eno)
If you'd like to see a fairer world but don't know how to get there, this book is for you. Bregman brilliantly shows how ideas commonly dismissed as utopian are eminently possible, indeed have almost happened (Ben Rawlence, Ben Rawlence, author of 'City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp')
Bregman shows us we've been looking at the world inside out. Turned right way out we suddenly see fundamentally new ways forward. If we can get enough people to read this book, the world will start to become a better place (Richard Wilkinson, co-author of The Spirit Level)
An excellent read and full of well-told stories and details I didn't know (Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist)
A boisterously good read (John Rentoul Independent)
Book Description
A bold, optimistic and internationally bestselling book giving us cutting-edge ideas for how we might reshape society