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A roadmap to utopia (with Rutger Bregman)

A roadmap to utopia (with Rutger Bregman)

FromPitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer


A roadmap to utopia (with Rutger Bregman)

FromPitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

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Length:
48 minutes
Released:
Jun 25, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Rutger Bregman, who The Guardian has called “the Dutch wunderkind of new ideas”, joins us this week to daydream a better future. Bregman won international fame by taking on everyone from Tucker Carlson to the wealthy elites at Davos on the topic of income inequality, and here he lays out a positive economic vision using the pillars of his book ‘Utopia for Realists’: a universal basic income, open borders, and a 15-hour workweek.  
Rutger Bregman is a Dutch historian and author. He has published four books on history, philosophy, and economics. His book ‘History of Progress’ was awarded the Belgian Liberales prize for best nonfiction book of 2013, and the Dutch edition of ‘Utopia for Realists’ became a national bestseller and sparked a basic income movement that made international headlines. The book has been translated into 31 languages. Bregman has twice been nominated for the prestigious European Press Prize for his journalism work at The Correspondent. 
Twitter: @rcbregman
Further reading: 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/18/solution-everything-working-less-work-pressure
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/26/rutger-bregman-utopia-for-realists-interview-universal-basic-income
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/20/dutch-professor-exposes-tucker-carlsons-fraud/?utm_term=.a252dc0fa581
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/01/rutger-bregman-world-economic-forum-davos-speech-tax-billionaires-capitalism
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1090045108064579584
Released:
Jun 25, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Any society that allows itself to become radically unequal eventually collapses into an uprising or a police state—or both. Join venture capitalist Nick Hanauer and some of the world’s leading economic and political thinkers in an exploration of who gets what and why. Turns out, everything you learned about economics is wrong. And if we don’t do something about rising inequality, the pitchforks are coming.