Get Your Free Audiobook
-
Utopia for Realists
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
Failed to add items
Add to cart failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
New to Audible Prime Member exclusive: 2 credits with free trial
Utopia for Realists
Buy Now for ₹569.00
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Publisher's Summary
We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, when technology and so-called progress have made us richer but more uncertain than ever before. We have 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. So, too, does the time seem to be coming to an end when we looked to economists to help us define the qualities necessary to create a successful society.
We need a new movement. One defined by a young historian who can tell us the truth about how we got here. They'd be a political outsider, the voice of their generation, one who doesn't harness rage or agitate grievances but who provides us with the answers for which we've been looking. That person is Rutger Bregman, and his vision is Utopia for Realists.
More from the same
What listeners say about Utopia for Realists
Average Customer RatingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Jay
- 31-05-20
READ IT NOW !
An absolute essential for today's world ! A book whose time has come !!!
very well narrated.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Abhinav
- 12-08-19
Asks baffling questions, with no easy answers
Early on in the book - author asks a question that baffled me - "Why is that - even after machines have automated most of the work, that we used to do in the year 1800 CE, we 200 years later seem to be even busier and have even lesser time for our-self. Why increase in productivity not increasing our leisure time ?"
Some of my favorite reads such as - '1984' have been on the topic of dystopia. So, imagining utopia along with the author was a good change. But, the 'Utopia' the author leads us towards is not in some imaginative future - but perhaps it is to be found in our own economic and societal ideas of past decades - that we are somehow forgetting as a culture.
The book explores 'radical ideas' such as universal basic income, 15 hour work week, free education & health, global citizenship - as something which is not only desirable but also perhaps achievable.
This book will for sure make you doubt your standard world view and make you question - What if?
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Sameer Narula
- 13-06-21
a very important piece of work
highly recommended. in addition to his human kind, this book is an important and pertinent piece of work for our times. as we come out of a global pandemic, it behooves us to consider what sort of a world we wish to build going forward
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!