Podcast Episodes featuring Rutger Bregman

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448 - Rutger Bregman (Historian and Author of Humankind)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - November 09, 2020 20:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratings
Rutger Bregman is a historian and author. He has published five books on history, philosophy, and economics. His books Humankind (2020) and Utopia for Realists (2017) were both New York Times Bestsellers and have been translated into more than 40 languages. He also dared to speak truth to billi...

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THE TAXES, TAXES, TAXES GUY – Rutger Bregman on the Power of Ideas

EQUALS: Reimagining Our Economy - October 24, 2019 13:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
Do you know what happened on April 1, 1947, in the small village of Mont Pèlerin in Switzerland? Well you probably should, as it went on to shape the global economy as we know it today. Rutger Bregman – described as "one of the greatest young thinkers of our time" – tells the story. He is the Dut...

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Exclusief interview van Jesse Frederik met Rutger Bregman

De Rudi & Freddie Show - Dutch - August 31, 2019 03:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
#072. Luisteraars! Bij de Rudi & Freddie Show hebben we al vele boeken mogen promoten: Jelmers boek, Sannes boek, zelfs Rosannes boek (niet eens bij ons uitgegeven, kun je nagaan). Ditmaal aan mij de eer om mijn waarde collega en co-podcaster Rutger Bregman te interviewen over zijn boek De meeste...

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A roadmap to utopia (with Rutger Bregman)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer - June 25, 2019 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
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 positi...

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Reinventing Economics with Rutger Bregman

Dan Snow's History Hit - April 05, 2019 16:30 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.5K ratings
Rutger Bregman, the Dutch historian who has been making waves at Davos, as well as irking the likes of Tucker Carlson in the states, chats to Dan about the economic ideas that he hopes will change the way we think about work. Rutger discusses universal basic income, shorter working weeks, and fr...

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Reinventing Economics with Rutger Bregman

Channel History Hit - April 05, 2019 16:30 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratings
Rutger Bregman, the Dutch historian who has been making waves at Davos, as well as irking the likes of Tucker Carlson in the states, chats to Dan about the economic ideas that he hopes will change the way we think about work. Rutger discusses universal basic income, shorter working weeks, and fr...

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Viral Sensation Rutger Bregman On How Utopian Ideas Can Become Reality

Intelligence Squared - April 05, 2019 02:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratings
This week's episode features Rutger Bregman, historian and author of Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There. In conversation with Helen Lewis, associate editor of the New Statesman, he discusses subjects ranging from Universal Basic Income, the benefits of the four-day working week, climat...

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Rutger Bregman: historian in the news

History Extra podcast - March 07, 2019 16:08 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 2.6K ratings
We speak to Dutch historian Rutger Bregman, who recently hit the headlines with his appearance at the World Economic Forum and an unaired interview on Fox News. He discusses some of the ideas that caused a global sensation and the role of a historian in the modern world. Hosted on Acast. See acas...

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3. Rutger Bregman

Future To Fight For - June 02, 2018 01:53 - 22 minutes ★★★ - 1 rating
Rutger Bregman, author of Utopia for Realists, joins us for a chat about the history of radical ideas and why their time might have finally come.

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Rutger Bregman - Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #190

Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip - February 21, 2018 00:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 146 ratings
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode one hundred and NINETY of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Ten away from two hundred… I’m sure you could have done the math on that yourselves. Still, that’s huge! And as we approach the big numbers, what better time to approach some big top...

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Universal Basic Income with Rutger Bregman and Roth IRA

Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger - February 01, 2018 08:01 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
Despite the fact that we are nearing the ninth year of a global economic recovery, poverty remains a problem.  In the United States alone, recent numbers from the Census Bureau show the rate to be just under 13% with more than 40 million people considered to be living in poverty. Globally, more...

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Universal Basic Income - Rutger Bregman and Hilmar Schneider

Room for Discussion - January 11, 2018 14:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In this interview, Rutger Bregman (Dutch journalist and advocate for a universal basic income) debates Hilmar Schneider (Director of the institute of Labour Economics in Bonn) on the necessity and the feasibility of a Universal Basic Income. Interviewers: Miguel Krol and Olaf Vrijmoet Music: Ru...

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Rutger Bregman on Utopia For Realists | Antidote 2017

Ideas at the House - January 05, 2018 03:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Our day-to-day reality – life expectancy, health, wealth, and education – were considered unrealistic and utopian in the eighteenth century. So, what's next? Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian and author, explores how utopian ideals like a basic living income and a fifteen-hour work week could be...

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Rutger Bregman on Universal Basic Income

Tankesmien Agenda - Norwegian - September 28, 2017 12:05 - 19 minutes
Rutger Bregman talks about his book "Utopia for Realists - And How We Can Get There". Recorded in Oslo at an event organized by the center-left think tank Agenda and the publisher Spartacus.

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Interview with Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists

Uncommon Sense – Triple R FM - September 05, 2017 06:02 - 30 minutes
Historian and author Rutger Bregman joined Amy in the studio to talk about his new book, 'Utopia for Realists.' Rutger advocates for some big ideas, such as the universal basic income and a shorter working week, and gives compelling evidence that they work and could become a reality. (Broadcast o...

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Uncommon Sense - 5 September 2017 - Rutger Bregman

Uncommon Sense - September 05, 2017 02:00 - 30 minutes
For this special Uncommon Sensepodcast, host Amy Mullins spoke with Dutch historian and author Rutger Bregman about his new book,Utopia for Realists.

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Utopia for Realists with Rutger Bregman & In Search of the Lost Chord with Danny Goldberg

Moments with Marianne - July 29, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Utopia for Realists with Rutger Bregman Rutger Bregman is a historian and author. He has published four books on history, philosophy, and economics. His History of Progress was awarded the Belgian Liberales prize for best nonfiction book of 2013. The Dutch edition of Utopia for Realists became a...

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Rutger Bregman on Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There

The Shakespeare and Company Interview - June 29, 2017 20:17 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 44 ratings
We were joined by visionary political thinker Rutger Bregman to discuss his groundbreaking work Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There. In association with Editions Seuil.

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Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash | Rutger Bregman

TED Talks Society and Culture - May 22, 2017 15:06 - Video ★★★★ - 687 ratings
"Ideas can and do change the world," says historian Rutger Bregman, sharing his case for a provocative one: guaranteed basic income. Learn more about the idea's 500-year history and a forgotten modern experiment where it actually worked -- and imagine how much energy and talent we would unleash i...