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Book

Utopia for realists : how we can build the ideal world

Call Number

  • 321.07 B833 (CEN)

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Edition

First North American edition.

Languages

Translated from the Dutch.

Publication Information

New York : Little Brown and Company, 2017.

Physical Description

319 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Summary

"A noted Dutch journalist and economist proposes an outline for a new worldwide Utopia, with central tenets including a shortened work week, a guaranteed basic income for all, wealth redistribution, and open borders everywhere,"--NoveList.

Notes

Translation of: Gratis geld voor iedereen.

Contents

  • The Return of Utopia
  • Why We Should Give Free Money to Everyone
  • The End of Poverty
  • The Bizarre Tale of President Nixon and His Basic Income Bill
  • New Figures for a New Era
  • A Fifteen-Hour Workweek
  • Why It Doesn't Pay to Be a Banker
  • Race Against the Machine
  • Beyond the Gates of the Land of Plenty
  • How Ideas Change the World.

Subjects

Added Authors

Elizabeth Manton