• Over 250.000 copies sold
  • “Freshly written, witty and contrarian”
    The Guardian
  • “A breath of fresh air”
    Rolling Stone

Utopia for Realists is one of those rare books that takes you by surprise and challenges what you think you know. Rutger Bregman takes us on a journey through history, beyond the traditional left-right divides, as he introduces ideas whose time has come.

This original Dutch bestseller sparked a national movement for basic income experiments that soon made international headlines. Translation rights have been sold to thirty territories.

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