Two-thirds of Americans report that they would take two extra weeks of vacation above two extra w... more Two-thirds of Americans report that they would take two extra weeks of vacation above two extra weeks of salary, and half of all business professionals report that their jobs offer no “meaning or significance.” And after working all day at jobs we hate, we buy things we don’t need. In UTOPIA FOR REALISTS, Dutch historian and journalist Rutger Bregman reminds us it needn’t be this way. A manifesto full of intentionality and pragmatism, Bregman’s book centers on three central utopic ideas: a 15-hour workweek, a “universal basic income”, no strings attached, and open borders throughout the globe. Though the claims might seem fanciful at first, UTOPIA FOR REALISTS provides numerous examples of successful experiments with “free money”, such as Mincome in 1970s Canada, and experiments in giving homeless people a financial foundation. The theory among detractors is that free money will make people be lazy and work less. But in fact, employment is necessary for virtually everyone’s happines...
Many discussions of J. S. Mill's concept of liberty focus too narrowly on On Liberty and fail... more Many discussions of J. S. Mill's concept of liberty focus too narrowly on On Liberty and fail to acknowledge that his treatment of related issues elsewhere may modify its leading doctrines. Mill and Paternalism demonstrates how a contextual reading suggests that in Principles of Political Economy, and also his writings on Ireland, India and on domestic issues like land reform, Mill proposed a substantially more interventionist account of the state than On Liberty seems to imply. This helps to explain Mill's sympathies for socialism after 1848, as well as his Malthusianism and feminism, which, in conjunction with Harriet Taylor's views, are central to his later discussions of the family and marriage. Feminism, indeed, is shown to provide the answer to the problem which most agitated Mill, overpopulation. Thus Gregory Claeys sheds new lights on many of Mill's overarching preoccupations, including the theory of liberty at the heart of On Liberty.
Volume 1 [Ellis James Davis], Pyrna: A Commune or, Under the Ice (1875) In the Future: A Sketch i... more Volume 1 [Ellis James Davis], Pyrna: A Commune or, Under the Ice (1875) In the Future: A Sketch in Ten Chapters (1875) Etymonia (1875) [Henry Crocker Marriott Watson], Erchomenon or, The Republic of Materialism (1879) Volume 2 Henry Wright, Mental Travels in Imagined Lands (1878) A Thousand Years Hence (1882) Volume 3 Joseph Carne-Ross, Quintura: Its Singular People and Remarkable Customs (1886) [Henry Crocker Watson], The Decline and Fall of the British Empire or, The Witch's Cavern (1890) Michael Rustoff (pseud.), What Will Mrs. Grundy Say? Or, A Calamity on Two Legs (1891) [Charles Wicksteed Armstrong], The Yorl of the Northmen, or, The Fate of the English Race (1892) Volume 4 William Herbert (pseud.?), The World Grown Young ([1892]) Frederick W Hayes, The Great Revolution of 1905 or, The Story of the Phalanx (1893) Volume 5 G Read Murphy, Beyond the Ice: Being a Story of the Newly Discovered Region Round the North Pole ([1894]) Volume 6 Andrew Acworth, A New Eden (1896) Z S ...
Mechanics’ institutes were developed in the first half of the nineteenth century to further techn... more Mechanics’ institutes were developed in the first half of the nineteenth century to further technical and adult education in Britain. Beginning in the early 1820s in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds and London, there were about 700 mechanics’ institutes and similar associations in Britain by 1850, with a membership of some 120,000. Such figures are misleading, however, for while many of these institutions have not yet been carefully studied, they have often been accounted a failure, since they never taught factory operatives skills directly related to their work, nor even attracted an audience composed primarily of mechanics. The reasons for this are varied, but some historians have detected a relationship between efforts to teach political economy in the institutes and their inability to fulfil their original intentions. For while they did develop teaching on a larger scale than similar organizations in this period, the teaching of political economy in particular remained controversial, a...
Two-thirds of Americans report that they would take two extra weeks of vacation above two extra w... more Two-thirds of Americans report that they would take two extra weeks of vacation above two extra weeks of salary, and half of all business professionals report that their jobs offer no “meaning or significance.” And after working all day at jobs we hate, we buy things we don’t need. In UTOPIA FOR REALISTS, Dutch historian and journalist Rutger Bregman reminds us it needn’t be this way. A manifesto full of intentionality and pragmatism, Bregman’s book centers on three central utopic ideas: a 15-hour workweek, a “universal basic income”, no strings attached, and open borders throughout the globe. Though the claims might seem fanciful at first, UTOPIA FOR REALISTS provides numerous examples of successful experiments with “free money”, such as Mincome in 1970s Canada, and experiments in giving homeless people a financial foundation. The theory among detractors is that free money will make people be lazy and work less. But in fact, employment is necessary for virtually everyone’s happines...
Many discussions of J. S. Mill's concept of liberty focus too narrowly on On Liberty and fail... more Many discussions of J. S. Mill's concept of liberty focus too narrowly on On Liberty and fail to acknowledge that his treatment of related issues elsewhere may modify its leading doctrines. Mill and Paternalism demonstrates how a contextual reading suggests that in Principles of Political Economy, and also his writings on Ireland, India and on domestic issues like land reform, Mill proposed a substantially more interventionist account of the state than On Liberty seems to imply. This helps to explain Mill's sympathies for socialism after 1848, as well as his Malthusianism and feminism, which, in conjunction with Harriet Taylor's views, are central to his later discussions of the family and marriage. Feminism, indeed, is shown to provide the answer to the problem which most agitated Mill, overpopulation. Thus Gregory Claeys sheds new lights on many of Mill's overarching preoccupations, including the theory of liberty at the heart of On Liberty.
Volume 1 [Ellis James Davis], Pyrna: A Commune or, Under the Ice (1875) In the Future: A Sketch i... more Volume 1 [Ellis James Davis], Pyrna: A Commune or, Under the Ice (1875) In the Future: A Sketch in Ten Chapters (1875) Etymonia (1875) [Henry Crocker Marriott Watson], Erchomenon or, The Republic of Materialism (1879) Volume 2 Henry Wright, Mental Travels in Imagined Lands (1878) A Thousand Years Hence (1882) Volume 3 Joseph Carne-Ross, Quintura: Its Singular People and Remarkable Customs (1886) [Henry Crocker Watson], The Decline and Fall of the British Empire or, The Witch's Cavern (1890) Michael Rustoff (pseud.), What Will Mrs. Grundy Say? Or, A Calamity on Two Legs (1891) [Charles Wicksteed Armstrong], The Yorl of the Northmen, or, The Fate of the English Race (1892) Volume 4 William Herbert (pseud.?), The World Grown Young ([1892]) Frederick W Hayes, The Great Revolution of 1905 or, The Story of the Phalanx (1893) Volume 5 G Read Murphy, Beyond the Ice: Being a Story of the Newly Discovered Region Round the North Pole ([1894]) Volume 6 Andrew Acworth, A New Eden (1896) Z S ...
Mechanics’ institutes were developed in the first half of the nineteenth century to further techn... more Mechanics’ institutes were developed in the first half of the nineteenth century to further technical and adult education in Britain. Beginning in the early 1820s in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds and London, there were about 700 mechanics’ institutes and similar associations in Britain by 1850, with a membership of some 120,000. Such figures are misleading, however, for while many of these institutions have not yet been carefully studied, they have often been accounted a failure, since they never taught factory operatives skills directly related to their work, nor even attracted an audience composed primarily of mechanics. The reasons for this are varied, but some historians have detected a relationship between efforts to teach political economy in the institutes and their inability to fulfil their original intentions. For while they did develop teaching on a larger scale than similar organizations in this period, the teaching of political economy in particular remained controversial, a...
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